Only useless things are indispensable.

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.

Good taste is as tiring as good company.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Only useless things are indispensable.

God invented concubinage, satan marriage.

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

The success of family welfare depends on giving women complete freedom with their lives. The need of the hour is that people should plan their families as per their convenience and get the bare minimum health facilities.

Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him.

Tabloids can be fun. I see stuff sometimes and have a good laugh.

In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

I've only been to one concert in my life.

One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.

I could say diamonds are a girl's best friend, and that never changes. But the taste for art did change.

I shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants.

We have new tools that can give the audience a sense of not only being there, which is the key element in an IMAX film, but also seeing things in a way that they won't see on television or in feature films.

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.

There's a difference... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry.

I would like philanthropists to take more risks and invest more in risk capital.

Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.

I think at some point there may be artists who will get fed up, and they deliberately want to use their art as a means to rock the waves a little bit. And instead of doing the status quo, they'll deliberately go out to really make a change. I think Kendrick Lamar is an example of that.

Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.

I don't have a specific style. My style is unorthodox; that is my style. So you can't really place me here, place me there, because my style is just to be anywhere, you know what I'm saying?

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

I think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological data... I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate's report of scientists against the theory of man-made global warming.

I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

I feel very connected to poets across the country.