Love is exclusivity, selection.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

To be a success, be yourself.

It requires more courage to back down compared to moving forward.

I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.

You don't become a rock star for no reason.

Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

On any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods.

My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.

I haven't changed at all. I'm the same as when I was 11.

Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.