I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?

The eye always fills in the imperfections.

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?

Passion was the antithesis of morality.

I realised when it came to men, I did not pick the beautiful or the correct. I picked the wrong one.

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

Stress comes from the fear of the unknown

Our prayers can go where we cannot...there are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed to us when we pray.

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

I've just always loved animals.

O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.

The only motive strong enough to induce men to exercise the self control required by the religion of Jesus is love.

In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.