A day in a man’s life is constructed according to whether he accepts or rejects flashes of inspiration.

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.

It's interesting, isn't it? Being in the world.

Her only weapons were her tears.

Anywhere there is life, there are eyes. And things, too, speak to those who have ears to hear.

Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't allow yourself, no matter what, to depend on them.

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.

When a man loves a woman, he'll spend his very last dime tryin' to hold on to what he needs.

I believe in order to understand