One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.

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.

Accept yourself, seek the divinity within you.

Don’t give Satan a foothold, but discipline yourself to stay close to God. He alone is your security.

There's no greater proof of an impoverished mind than its inability to be witty except at other people's expense.

The more the heart is sated with joy the more it becomes insatiable.

For me, music and life are all about style.

I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.

I always looked ahead.

One of my favourites is American Beauty. Spacey is so good in that.

You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.

The truth is, some relationships are supposed to last forever, and some are only supposed to last a few days. That’s the way life is.