When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

A jug fills drop by drop.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Sunlight is painting.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Give up trying to make me give up

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.