There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

of seatbelts as an opportunity to take up drunk-driving.

Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived beneath such grandeur and threat every moment of their lives.

I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.

The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.

I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run.

If I prayed as much as I pluck, I'd be the Dalai Lama.

He who seeks eternity should look at the sky, he who seeks the moment, should look at the cloud.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

Today is much more an age of greed

This is what it means to be in the middle of love, I thought. Being in the middle of love is like being in the middle of a war zone.