If 10 percent of the population were to take a consciously ethical outlook on life and act accordingly, the resulting change would be more significant than any change of government,

If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are getting exploited and ripped off, we are not the left.

To say that life is meaningless is to express an attitude, not to state a fact

What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?

But words once spoke can never be recall'd.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.

Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.

The true vagrant is the only king above all comparison.

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well.

Sometimes I think people are famous because they're themselves and they do a role and you see them do it.