The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

War isn't hell. War is war, and Hell is hell, and not the two, war is a lot worse.

Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars.

Patience is an action and a skill to be cultivated. It actually solves more problems that most other actions.

I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.

I do like to believe there is no stupid and or funny question because in fact if we don't ask than we don't learn.

I don't know any neighborhoods where everyone's walking around in seven-inch heels and perfect makeup.

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

Rock stardom will die because nobody will make enough money any more to be rock stars.

In the spiritual life, he who does not advance goes backwards.

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful