It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

If I wasn't so phenomenal. I would go back to you.

Happiness is the silent purpose of all existence.

A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.

I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato.

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them.

If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nation's needs.

At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.

Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.