I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.

In due course we arrive, if wit can be said that we ever fully arrive. The truth is there are destinations beyond destinations and do the confirmed sailor goes on tacking forever.

I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.

I have a task that is greater than all the labors assigned to Hercules. It demands that I live in the richness of this moment because that is all I have or will ever know.

I learned that the interior of life was as rewarding as the exterior of life, and that my richest moments occurred when I was absolutely still.

The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves.

Often what people don't say or leave out, tells the real story.

Pity. What a useless emotion when you don't act on it. Pity is supposed to trigger compassion.

Revenge tightens the heart as much as the jaw. (La vengeance serre le cœur - Autant que la mâchoire)

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.

You must find a way to express your ideas and compel your audience to react through the idea itself, and then figuring out what the best representative of that idea may be, and bringing it to life.

The purpose of art is mystery.

The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth.

[Running for President is] physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III

Syria doesn't want to talk with us on a bilateral basis, only under the auspices of the United States.