It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.

A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

Love expands your soul with something inexplicably fulfilling. If you die without ever having experienced it, you will miss life's only true joy

Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.

We're all different and I respect my difference. I just try to be myself at all times. As long as I do that my music is always going to be different.

I think if you've never been pregnant, you can over play pregnant and you can do a lot of different things with pregnant.

We change our opinions of ourselves so often. What the outside world thinks is only a small part of our image.

You don't know what goes on in anyone's life but your own.

A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.

As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.

You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.