Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

There is an overflowing grace, for every great work.

Symphony of the airmy ear can hearmy only companiona rocking chairsilence is masterwishing you were here.

I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know) Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

I'm always interested in people who are not orientated in art circles to become part of it.

The book and the film [This Changes Everything] fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain was shared.

Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out.

I loved you so much right then Sam Roth.

I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.

A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It is a bit like mixing a salade. (I am better at room than salads).