If you say it very softly, with a smile, you can get away with saying almost anything, even the truth.

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.

Wonder begets culture, which begets yet more wonder, and the end of wonder is wisdom, which is the state of perpetual wonder.

Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.

Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.

The problem with studying is that it gets in the way of education.

Love is like chickenpox. It's much worse when it comes late.

Of all funny things, truth is the funniest.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.

i'm not able to concentrate like others doing i'm lagging day by day ! when you got this in your mind this represents you are leading not lagging.

In this town, a successful marriage is one that lasts longer than ice.

To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.

Only the absolutely determined people succeed.

And if kisses in these words could travel too, Madam, you'd read this letter with your lips.

Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.

I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people.

I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was.

I think I might write a book. I like writing. People have asked me if I would get into politics, but I think I feel a lot more effective being a representative of truth through the arts.