It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep

Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.

[In Bolivia] We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together again.

The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.

There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.

Save the people you love, who cares about the rest of the world? - Uncle Jake

I don't put much faith in the political system because it's a question of how are you going to run capitalism, not how are we going to develop a different system to capitalism.