The true way is along a rope that is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

The past is not for living in; it is a well of conclusions from which we draw in order to act.

我不是政治家。我是演员。我在这里是为了娱乐，不是为了说教。

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.