Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.

To think is to say 'no.'

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both.

The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

Perfection is ordinary

Politics makes me sick.

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!

I had abandoned my plans for priesthood and replaced them with dreams of being a musician.

From a family tree that has healthy roots, there emerge hearty leaves and most beautiful fruits.

It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black.