Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.