Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

All the great novels are about obsession and people who are obsessed.

When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.

Practicing security means continually turning towards the best version of yourself.

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.

Creativity is the mystery of freedom.

Never give up on your child. But also, you have to love your child.

I'm confident that there are plenty of people who have the strength of character and the presence of mind to warn me of difficulties and alert me to opportunities.

A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn't keep his hands dirty.