Just the way it never rains when you have an umbrella, you'll never run into people if you look fantastic. But go outside in pajamas, and you'll run into every ex you have.

You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.

I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.

For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

God gives every bird its food but he does not throw it into the nest.

I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.

She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.

I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.