Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

There is no love that is not an echo.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.

I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.

Trust is the essence of Leadership.

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.

Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.

I've come up against a few challenges. I've just taken them on with a really pure energy. I'm not out to change people's minds. I'm out to maybe educate and inspire.

There is only one emotion, one energy, in the universe: the energy, the emotion, that we call Love. When you know this, everything changes.

God, either you come down here tonight and touch me, or I'm going to die and come up there and touch you.