I always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free—I had to work hard.

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.

There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.

Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.

You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.

If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.

I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

Think. It's free of charge.

When we set up a goal for ourselves our body starts to produce inner energy independently

You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.''And yet it is still extremely funny.

I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.

The time has come for Firepaw to be made a warrior.

I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

Hayek became in his later years the dominant intellectual influence of the last quarter of the twentieth century.

Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.