Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.