When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

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.

Love must have wings to fly away from love And to fly back again.

You have to pay people real money.

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.

Just imagine that you are the person you want to be.

Initially I started writing because I felt like I didn't fit in. I just moved to a new school and I felt quite lonely. I think that's where it all started for me.

I don't need a man in my life.

It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!

We know how unhealthy it is. I know what happens, though - young women start smoking because they don't think they're really going to keep smoking.

Our strength is seen in the things we stand for; our weakness is seen in the things we fall for.

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.