If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.

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.

It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.

all that really matters to me is that there are critics.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

I'm gettin' stacks while you askin' people, 'Do you want some fries with that?'

He looks like something that fell out of a deck of cards!

I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.

Often how you define the problem will determine whether or not you're able to find a real solution.

There just comes a time when it's so clear that moving on is the best decision.

The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.