Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

Maybe this was my punishment, and perhaps justly so. 'It wasn't meant to be', Khala Jamila had said. Or, maybe, it was meant not to be.

People will say, "there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful with penitence. I would rather ask them to show me the route that leads to heaven or hell.

Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.

The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

You've only got to be in public life for about a week before you start to question if the newspapers are even giving you today's date with any accuracy!

There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.

There are no super saints, only those that don't quit.

Lasting change can occur only when it takes in the spirit of the mind.

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.

You should know how to do your job.