As long as I am on this little planet I expect to love a lot of people and I hope they will love me in return.

Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.

When you can't change a thing, don't let it change you.

A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.

As for opinions, if they're not pleasant they'd better be kept to yourself. I learned that early in life and forget it every day.

People are generally opposed to things they know nothing about.

... the place you're in is pretty near what you're fitted to fill. Otherwise you'd get out and fill another.

All men are no more alike than all women, only aliker.

There's nothing a man can stand so much of as praise.

Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.

It isn't bad judgment to make a man believe he is something. He is by nature inclined to it, and a little encouragement is good for most people.

There is hope for the sinner to be made a saint.

But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

Better start rushing before the rush begins!

Some say silence is golden, I choose noise!

A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.

Vivienne Westwood really inspires me. I love her punk ethos.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Children are geniuses.

There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide?