It is extraordinary how the human mind sees what it anticipates and is blind to anything that could not be dreamed of.

Disseminating knowledge is the human duty, sharing it about so that all can benefit.

Combinations of people, who should have nothing to say to each other. Yet, with hearts that do not recognize it.

A bed is a place where so much of life is played out - births and deaths and passions and dreaming - all the most fundamental moments of our fragile human existence.

Those dreams seem very simple to me now, a crude, crayon-drawn picture by a wistful child. But the beauty of impossible dreams is that they are impossible - the hows and whens don't really matter.

Like Aurelia, he is a lover of humanity in all its quirks and foibles, quick to delight and slow to judge.

We both loved the birds and animals and plants. We both felt far happier out of doors. I felt a peace in nature that I could never find in the human world, as you know.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Taxation is the legitimate support of government.

As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.

There are complete men and incomplete men. If you would be a complete man, put all of your soul's strength into all of your life's actions.

I think all women in all industries have more obstacles than men.

I never went to a modeling school, and I don't suggest to anybody that they go to a modeling school.

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.