A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

The world is full of love stories, and all lovers are in a sense the avatars of their predecessors.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

We're all works of art in progress.

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

My body is my body, every part of it.

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

Riches begin in the form of thought.

Sometimes we need to lose our way.... to find our way

From the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future.

Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.