Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

I'd think, maybe he truly is something extraordinary. He's what he is, that's it. Maybe that makes him strong enough, being what he is.

I like to be the one in charge of everything.

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!

A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.

I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron.

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

Negative thinking hinders others from making a positive response.

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.