All that is real is seen with the heart.

It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.

Giving is the highest expression of our power.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.

All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.

Very few people do covers of my tunes.

I didn't have a happy childhood.

I don't spend my hours plotting for somebody else's downfall.

Perhaps she drives men away. Perhaps, without even being able to help herself, she just puts men into her ill-tempered car and drives them off: to quarries, dumps, small anonymous bodies of water.

Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.

When someone really believes in what they're saying, but it's crazy, it's like my favorite thing on earth.