Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

A person who does not believe in victory and who always doubts will never finish anything

May living your truth set you free!

Adding little amounts over time makes a huge difference

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon.

I don't know if everybody does, but I have a really hard time listening to myself on recordings, unless we've spent weeks and weeks and weeks listening and mixing.

Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.

Congress should just do its job and pass a transportation-infrastructure bill - a regular bill that doesnt borrow money and mortgage my future.

Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.

You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey.