When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

Be according to your possibility.

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

I love America. I lived here too but my links are exclusively Italian.

I relax my body completely, relax my mind completely, and then imagine myself at a level where anything can happen.

Moon, moon, when you leave me alone all the darkness is an utter blackness, a pit of fear, a stench, hands unreasonable never to touch. But I love you. Do you love me. What to say when you see me.

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second, or one sixteenth, or one one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth. Snap your fingers; a snapshot's faster.

You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.

We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.

People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.