Between ourselves, there are two things that I have always observed to be in singular accord: supercelestial thoughts and subterranean conduct.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

The thing I fear most is fear.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

Stones Come And Go, The Big Fish Eat The Little Fish And I Keep On Battling.

The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.

I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends... It wasn't worth it.

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.

And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian.

Once he'd even reprogrammed the electronic billboards in Time Square to read: ALL DA LADIES LUV LEO... accidentally, of course.

Expenses should never exceed one percent of our purchases.

The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.

I often pay homeless people to come round and clean my car.