You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder...

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

If there was one advantage of the numerous lifetimes he’d been forced to endure, it was undoubtedly knowledge.

There was no logic or any sense of purpose except that I knew I had to do something other than what I was doing, or I might not make it through this.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy

He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.

People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!

I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.

What is the moral? Who rides may read.

Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!