I am not famous for anything in particular. I am just famous.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

You're the creator of your own future. Get to writing.

Emma, Emma, Emma, " I said, wishing I could somehow teach her to take the smaller blows of life in her stride.

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

No one tells me what they think because they're either intimidated by me, or they don't want to upset me.

...that's not why we broke up. I love it, I miss it, I hate to give it back to you, this complicated thing, it's why we stayed together

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself.

American capitalism has helped finance the communist take over of the world. Somebody is going to answer to God for this.

I've often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world.