A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

If life were fattening, Walter Cronkite would weigh 500 pounds.

There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

I have a lot of boyfriends, I want you to write that. Every country I visit, I have a different boyfriend. And I kiss them all.

I learned through apprenticeship. I was an assistant to a defensive coach, and I'm still learning.

Most people who do have the instincts will never recognize that they do, because they don't have the courage or the good fortune to discover their potential.

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

The threat of nuclear terrorism is growing faster than our ability to prevent an attack on our homeland.

All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.