Genius is sorrow's child.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

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

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.