It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

For life is holy and every moment is precious.

If you make the same mistake 3 times, that becomes ‘your arrangement’

I just want to go for it. In every aspect of my life and careers, I just want to give it all I have.

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

Too great haste leads us to error.

During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.

My ambition is not only to chronicle but to interpret and reveal the movement of the mind and unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature.

When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations and making bold steps that change the course of history, the United States is usually on the front lines.