If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

I can see how, with enough false education, enough widespread illusion and error, men can, while remaining men, believe this and commit the most unspeakable crimes.

(on visiting the USSR after Stalin regime installed)All right, I can see the broken eggs. Now where's this omelette of yours?

Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

Peter finds the lost, the left-behind, the abused. Is that not why you are here? Did Peter not save you?

I can't play a slave.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud.

I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society.