My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Vice is its own reward.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

Nearly always when actors are approached by the beauticians, they try to avoid the dabs that the beauticians put on their faces. They dodge them.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

Wonders encircled the world.

...being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.

Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild leaps of their uncontrolled fancy.

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

When I came to Chelsea from West Ham there were certain parts of my game I felt I needed to improve and I like to think now that I have shown dramatic improvement.

Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.

I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.

What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.