The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

No two persons ever read the same book.

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.

Salvation of mankind is neither human effort nor desire. But God's grace of a greater mercy.

Freedom can choke you if you don't know how to handle it.

There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss.

Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.

Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you

I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.