What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Vice is its own reward.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

If you believe all those who are urging you to give up are wrong, prove them wrong!

Gradually you became my worst memories with a beautiful past

To be very wealthy, you have to program yourself as a machine with targets to reach.

I was certain of the uncertainty thatlied ahead which made you A risk, A mystery, And the most annihilating thing I have ever known.

And that - he pointed ahead - is the road to Hell. That's where we're going. I have always heard it was paved with good intentions, said Simon

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

The one-child policy was based on some faulty science and had, as an ambition, reining in Chinese population growth, so as to enhance the per capita wealth of the country.

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.