Comedy, sometimes if you think about it too much then it becomes a bit boring. If you start thinking about striking the right balance sometimes it takes the spontaneity out of it.

As long as we're honest and not mean, it's all fair game no matter what you say.

Take a vacation from your stressful thoughts by changing your thoughts.

Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the best of both. And it is universities that best provide them.

Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art's sake: it exists for people's sake.

I know history. There are many names in historybut none of them are ours.

We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.

The struggle I went through has value.

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.

You only see what your eyes want to see. How can life be what you want it to be?

We travel with the same clan over and over again, from one life to the next, until some ultimate purpose is fulfilled and we no longer need to return.

So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it.