You are free only when you care for nobody in the world. But if you stop caring, life isn't worth living.

All writing is a process of elimination.

Failure is never a reason not to try again.

It is a great blessing to be able to forget, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know what should be forgotten.

No fight is harder than the struggle against the thing you want most to believe.

when you start to bore yourself and others, that's when you begin to get old.

Scientists have a second brain where other people have their hearts.

There are as many jealousies in life as there are different flowers or trees or animals.

innocence is the hardest thing to prove.

there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only half true.

What would be achieved ever if people lost the ability to dream?

Love may not be quid pro quo but marriage certainly is.

We do not actually know other cultures

Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

It is not the responsibility of the Federal Bank - nor would it be appropriate - to protect lenders and investors from the consequences of their decisions

It's amazing where a joke might come from. I find a lot of humour just by metaphorically turning things upside down or literally like my wife's cat.

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

The worst of lusts is vanity.

In cathedral or cottage, the art of worship is an inner adventure; it is the personal practice of the presence of God.