Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Freedom, if it emerges like magic from consciousness (like the conjuring of consciousness itself!) seems best recognized in the choices made for love.

He wasn't mad, he was sad.

What if I told you, that consciousness is not in the body, body is embedded in the consciousness.

It takes a man of unusual character to openly confront his own shortcomings. It’s so much more convenient to blame others.

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.

The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.

You have to talk about the issue of race, but I can talk to white constituents about racism, if I at least acknowledge that life is not a crystal stair for them either.

The categories of A-minus through C-plus [films] are completely dominated by Hollywood.

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.

Every day, I love what I do and I think it's a gift and privilege to love your job.