If there is a soul, then it is a mistake to think that it is given to us completely created. It is created right here for a lifetime. Life is nothing but a long, painful process of creation.

The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.

The result may be important but it’s not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something.

A reader knows the mind of sacred souls.

You missed it when you pay more attention to the damaged car in the mechanic shop than the sick human being in the hospital.

The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

The advertising man is a liaison between the products of business and the mind of the nation. He must know both before he can serve either.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

I personally believe that war is highly unlikely.

The more we listen to ourselves and make positive changes based on what we discover, the more interesting life becomes.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.