The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

The great pagan sadness of modern man is largely due to his premonition of ultimate disaster.

My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.

I'm getting used to the singing part but not the talking part.

It's hard to keep the energy going sometimes, that's why I like to go with a group of people who are meditating. I love meditating in groups, it's fantastic.

When you come to expect humor of people, you will never get it.

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.

I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.

I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.

Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes.