There seemed to be endless obstacles ... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery of a purpose which I did not know.

There seemed to be endless obstacles preventing me from living with my eyes open, but as I gradually followed up clue after clue it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

I began to have an idea of my life not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

There seemed to be endless obstacles-it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

It is weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart.

Cigarette kisses the flame. But the mouth kisses the woman. (Cigarette embrasse la flamme. - Mais la bouche embrasse la femme.)

The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.

I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.

The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.

My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.

A new life? There’s not such thing. It was only in the magazine headlines that people got a new life. Stopped drinking or taking drugs, found a new love. But the same life.

All you need is love.

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.