As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.

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.

Love is a power which produces love.

There are situations of course that leave you utterly speechless. All you can do is hint at things. Words, too, can't do more than just evoke things. That's where dance comes in again.

A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.

Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.

I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs.... Perhaps I am an exception.

You don't compete with dollars, but you compete with ideas. Your only real borders are what you can imagine.

I like doing Zumba. I only do it like, once a week. If I did it more often, I would be very skinny.

Spiritual means religion without any rules. It's all the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do

We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.