Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

We dance to rekindle the soul.

Tomorrow is a blank canvas and you are the artist.

Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems.

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.

Who says I'm insane?" "Oh you're sane alright. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane.

Life justified itself. It might be cruel, treacherous, ironic, but it was life, and pain was as much a part of it as joy.