An idea is something you have

She was asked to pour out everything she had, but all she had was an empty soul.

We can reach a global harmony if we remove xenophobia

My mom always said fighting with me as a kid was like going to court. I'm trying to realize that being right is not the most important thing.

The first thing a principle does is kill somebody

Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.

The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

I think if you're an unhappy person, you're always going to be an unhappy person. You're probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I'm being honest.

There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.

Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest.