Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.

You have never been curious about me; you never wanted to explore my soul.

The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.

There is only what is.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.