If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

You may not need to tell me, I can hear your song better when your voice is silent and your heart is singing.

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.

The history of a people are found in its songs.

The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.

In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game.

Never lie, never cheat, never steal.

The only people who think life should be easy are lazy people

You made me insecure, Told me I wasn't good enough.

When I get ready for an event, I always look at myself in the mirror and say, 'I look like a transvestite,' I love it.