If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living.

I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living

Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those willing to climb them.

Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as beauty.

There’s just one place to live – the impossible.

To discover a city is in itself a unique event, but when we have the privilege of sharing it with friends most dear to us, it becomes a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Cuba will be free. I already am.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there

I am proud to say that I am not in it for the money. If I made a million dollars, I would donate most of it to various charities and libraries.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

When I meet a person that tells me they stopped hooping for no reason, I thank them for opening my door and making it easier.

People who are not interested in food always seem rather dry and unloving and don't have a real gusto for life.

Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.

I believe that one can aspire to as much as one wants to.