Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

Moonlight is sculpture.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

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

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Give up trying to make me give up

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

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

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

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.