To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both.

It's about being smart, taking your time, keeping your composure, just going out there and being the best that you can be

In the most advanced state of love we don't love for any reason or purpose. We don't even direct our love necessarily to an object.

That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

Go out into the world and do good until there is too much good in the world.

What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel

There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread

The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.