Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things happen. Once they are out you cannot put them back.

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

If you want to find out how strong a company's ethics are, don't listen to what its people say, watch what they do.

Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

Those that have an attitude of service towards others are the beauty of society.

In hard times, gold is a good friend and good friend is gold!

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement.

We all know that the nation can't divide more than the people produce, but as individuals we try to get more than our share and that's how we get ahead.