And what about all the good I have in my heart - does it mean anything?

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

A key that opens many locks is worth buying. A lock that can be opened with many keys isn't.

I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.

Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.

I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.

The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

America's companies are built to destroy creativity.

I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.

I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.

If we were good at everything we would have no need for each other.