I learned the hard way that people are quick to judge, will jump at the chance of a cheap ego boost at another's expense.

But death has taken root inside you and you know it will grow, like a cancer with a voice, from now until the day it consumes you whole.

Creativity is just an attraction to the second rate minds but simplification to the first rate minds.

If I have been given any gift in this life, it’s my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the world of imagination.

People with power do not regulate their behavior as much. They become egocentric and preoccupied with their own self-interest, which eclipses their awareness of the interests of others.

That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.

Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history.

I'm a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.

An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.

I think I made a mistake once... yeah... it was only once.

Since we don't know where we're going, we have to stick together in case someone gets there.