Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.

Watch birth and death:The lotus has alreadyOpened its flower.

But facts, remembered or not, are all, alas, still facts

The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.

It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering.

Reflection may be essential to a scholar, but it’s taboo in social intercourse.

People may make fun of me because I’m wearing something odd, but it’s still good to be alive.

It’s so unrewarding, being a woman.

Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish.

There was nothing so very unfamiliar about the excitement she was feeling, and yet it felt always like a new excitement. It was, in other words, a perennially unfamiliar feeling.

There was a large crowd around us, and every face in it looked happy. We had little opportunity to talk until we reached the woods, where there were no flowers and no people.

He knew there was only a slight difference between an armed guard and an escort, but sometimes that difference separated the honored and the condemned.

He prays best who does not know that he is praying.

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

Be your own kind of beautiful, it's super important. Take that to heart and always be yourself.

He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome.

They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.

Cinema verité is not the film of truth, but the truth of film.

Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.

I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.