The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.

To me, with age, everything has gotten better. You have way more control; you know yourself better.

Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes...

Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing only grief; Give me but You; it is enough just so.

The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony.

People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street.

I would rather die then let my kids eat cup a soup.

He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.