Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

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.

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.

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

Make time to read.

If you launch a career doing something you don't really like, that even if you're successful, you won't feel successful, and you'll be contemptuous of your own success.

Pain is nothing but the darkness that leads to the dawn of gain.

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn’t.

GOD IS YOUR THOUGHTS

When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

Concentrate on doing the job, not the fear.

He never gives up on who I am or who I could be. He doesn't run away when things get complicated.