The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

I'm allergic to stupidity.

The ruling passion be it what it will The ruling passion conquers reason still.

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.

But we never tell the truth. We cannot properly 'tell' the truth, because our words are crude tools to express something, 'the truth', which may well exist, but which we cannot define.

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.

Addiction to food is unfortunately really grave, also to alcohol or to anything else.

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

I wanted people to see that I really am a real person. I'm not just some guy who was on a TV show, some guy engulfed in the Hollywood life. I'm just a normal guy when it comes down to it.