I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Be consistent with what you believe and do. Persist and insist that you will do it till it's done and done well.

I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.

Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.

There are no rules when it comes to makeup!

It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.

You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn’t mention us