The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

The best part of a writer's biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style. [Vogue, interview, 1969]

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs

I campaigned for Hillary Clinton when she was in the primaries against [Barack] Obama, actually.

In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.

A company and leaders of the company have the responsibility of the precious lives of all the human beings that work there.

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.