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

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

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

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

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

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

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

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.