The middle class is growing that's the reality that nobody can stop.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. I don't like to pretend to be polite. What you see is what you get.

I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

I never touch coffee or other caffeinated drinks.

There is a time for everything and you do different things at different ages.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.

Traveling isn't something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing.

One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world.

Defined broadly enough, mathematics encompasses everything.

I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time.

There are people who know Hillary Clinton who tell wonderful stories about her, how likable she is, how funny she is; 99 percent of American people don't - have never seen that side of her.

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.