History is at once freedom and necessity.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters

What comes to pass does so not so much because a few people want it to happen, as because the mass of citizens abdicate their responsibility and let things be.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

Every State is a dictatorship.

Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.

The ramdomness of events in the world is so lacking in logic that we give it names like destiny, fate, karma and kismat to deal with the irrationality of its sequence

He who writes to his beloved every day is not a lover, but a writer.

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

Marriage is the best compromise between nature and culture.

From a distance it is something and nearby it is nothing.

Barack Obama will go down alongside George W. Bush in that realm as middling presidents because both made too many mistakes to be categorized as an effective, good president.

What mankind can dream research and technology can achieve

What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?

There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.

In week one of the X Factor, just to be a little bit quirky, I decided to say that I like girls who eat carrots. Ever since I've had lots and lots and lots of carrots.