We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

You don't have to belittle others in order to feel important in life. We are all special in the eyes of God. So be proud of your positive inner-self.

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

I like weird. I like weird a lot.

A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

I'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look down in the audience and I see somebody singing the words back to me, it makes it all worth it.

The last freedom is choosing your attitude.

Children of heroes have glory for breakfast.