We define genius as the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

I've got big feet, so filling someone else's big shoes doesn't scare me.

I'm sick of all these young people just boogeying around, wasting their lives, you know.

Never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance in the world to pursue your dreams.

I guess what I learned about myself is I'm a bit of a socialist; I want everyone on the set to get equal treatment and credit.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.

We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.