I don't worry about losing my looks. It's finding them on someone else that worries me.

Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.

He who disagrees with me in private, call him a fool. He who disagrees with me in public, call him an ambulance.

Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six.

If you only ever read one book in your life ... I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut.

Like bees around honey. Why are bees so attracted to honey, since they make it? It can only be vanity.

The truly beautiful are often abused for apparent ugliness just as those with great vision often bump into things.

When you look in the mirror and despair and none of your clothes seem appropriate, relax, put the kettle on. It might suit you.

What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what?

Fish deserve to be caught for they are lazy. Two million years of evolution and they still haven't got out of the water.

All men are brothers. Hence war.

I want to be the reason you look at your phone when you wake up in the morning and smile

Look for the heart of a tradition in the actions of its humble servants and selfless teachers. Listen and let the teachings be borne out, or set aside, based on your experience.

When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

Of course I am grateful, and I'm sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage," Bill said politely, "But I have my own wine cellar.

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

Anyone who is more interested in human beings than in the rules is a threat to the system.

I'm not a star, man. If a guy came in here and shot you and shot me, we'd both be two dead people. You understand?

Organizing atheists is like hurding cats