Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

There are so many futures still to dawn!

When man no longer regards himself as evil he ceases to be so!

I deny morality as I deny alchemy.

The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him.

...art had no moral responsibility. Art, he argued, should strive only to be a beautiful object entirely separate from its creator.

...she took away my yesterdays. But that's OK. Because now I am a person made of tomorrows.

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

The laws of the Universe are responding to me.

I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.

In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.

We have a lot that we believe is in the best interests of our country,and I'm looking forward to working with Barack Obama during the campaign and then on after the inauguration.

Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

The more you practice zazen, the more you will be able to accept something as your own, whatever it is.