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

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.

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.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves

Just because you knew it, doesn't mean you must reveal it. There are circumstances in life that should remain as secrets.

I think statues are great; they show what great people would look like if a bird sh*t all over them.

Our love is like a red, red rose... and I am a little thorny.

Because I move around among people I get inspired by the people.

The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.

It becomes an emperor to die standing.

You just have to know what you want and what you're doing and it leads to a kind of general well-being, which I think you sensed when you were there.