Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Each soul is potentially divine.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.