Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time.

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.

The future can not blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past.

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.

This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.

I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray.

I made a chocolate cake with white chocolate. Then I took it to a potluck. I stood in line for some cake. They said, "Do you want white cake or chocolate cake?" I said, "yes."

I'll keep doing the right things and the results will come

Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d'états, the removal of legitimate power.

We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.