A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

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.

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.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

Wisdom to accept change creates life, but conformity creates stagnation and leads to death.

More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!

The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

If we hold onto our American ideals, we've got to make sure that all opportunities are available - including access to the internet - no matter what income level you're at or where you live.

He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)

It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow

We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set.

Language is wine upon the lips.