It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue.

NEVER BE SO BUSY BEING THE LIGHT FOR OTHERS THAT YOU NEGLECT TO SHINE ON YOURSELF

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.

I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter.

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin.

Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little - or there are many fools.

We are now living in a jungle where the strong eats the weak,we are not better than the Arabs to despise them.

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.