The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.

Do everything with love.

Your hereditary is not nearly as important as your legacy.

Hell madame is to love no longer.

I love making people who already hate me hate me more.

Joy is the life of man's life.

This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

Among the major tasks before us none is of greater importance for our strength and stability than the task of building up the unity and solidarity of our people.

By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.