I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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

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.

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

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Nothing is black or white.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.