Did you know that Allah promises you a seat in Paradise if you kill a Christian?

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Vice is its own reward.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

Having a child isn't a deal you strike with life. As I said: a child is a gift. And what remains after a child is gone is the memory of the years it was allowed to live. Not its death

I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.

In 2031, lawyers will be commonly a part of most development teams.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.

Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.

They remember to do it all the time.

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.