Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Marketing is the perfect blend or art and science. But more than that, marketing is a craft.

I don't see myself as a violent guy.

You can't be the fastest gun in town forever. There comes a time when you're not the golden boy, and you have to go off somewhere and figure yourself out.

... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

I wasn't allowed to be clever when I was young and blonde, but now I am 50 and an old blonde, I am allowed to have gravitas. With wrinkles comes wisdom.

Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.

I've been in enough films where the studio wanted that extra little cuteness to make it sellable.