What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

In the journey of success, the only person that has to believe in your dreams is nobody else but yourself.

A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes.

For me, style is about forgetting the rules or creating new ones.

What a society deems important is enshrined in its art

Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.

Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.

Speaking of our unkind labeling of each other with, "she is divorced, she used to be inactive, etc", asked, "Can't we get over this hardening of the categories?".

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.