If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

A lie never lives to be old.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

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

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.