For him who has no concentration there is no tranquility.

I realize that life is risks. It’s acknowledging the past but looking forward. It’s taking a chance that we willmake mistakes but believing that we all deserve to be forgiven.

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.

I have this eerie feeling that by the time I'm 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before. It's cool but also a little creepy.

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.

There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.

You're incredibly beautiful,' I told her, because she was fat, so I thought it would be an especially nice compliment, and also make her like me again, even though I was sexist.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.