I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

No one is too far away to be cared for, or to care.

Everything does fall. It must be gravity.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.

Whatis the root of all these words? One thing: Love. But a love so deep and sweet it needed to express itself with scents, sounds, colors that never before existed.

Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.

The problem of the universal is difficult in every case. The universal and the particular can never be separated; they always go hand in hand.

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.