When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

To want is to have a weakness.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

You might fear you don’t have what it takes, but you don’t need to have all the answers or everything figured right from the start.

Religious unity does not come so easily. It is not a piece of pie, which you can buy in the shop. It takes sincere efforts from every single human being on this planet.

The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.

I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a political scientist, but I'm a fairly intuitive person.

Abundance flourishes in a grateful heart; gratitude is the secret of love.

When I approached one of his secretaries for an interview, I was told that Bob [Dylan] didn't want to see me anymore because of what my wife Margot [Hentoff] had written.

The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?

People look at me as spiritual... but I am also very logical, very business-minded. The two come together.

Storytelling is the oldest form of education.