As one gets older one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Work is much more fun than fun.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

History didn’t always predict the future. You had to live it one day at a time to find out what happened next.

For lunch, we drove into the hills and parked in the dappled shade of a big sycamore, its powdery white bark like a woman's body against the uncanny blue sky.

And the thing has been said and said well have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.

I can play, and I know it; I'm not looking for any pats on the back. I don't have to be endorsed by anybody. I make enough to live and eat, and I'm happy with my music-and that's all I need.

I love being in America. I love America. I absolutely adore working in America. I'm at my happiest when I'm in the States.

It seems to me more important actually to share someones distress than to use smooth words about it.

Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.

The salvation of the world lies in the human heart.