The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

The exit is usually where the entrance was.

Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?

The pain of dying will surely be nothing, for the pain of love is so much stronger and agonizing.

I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song: My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.

The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.

He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.

I live in a small country in Europe - Finland - and I don't speak English well and I had nothing to do with publishing houses in the West. I lived in complete isolation.

I think the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated.

See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.