Freedom is like health, it is taken for granted while one has it. One becomes aware of it when it has gone.

Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.

Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced.

Power is the great enemy of freedom

Light chases away darkness.

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

When you have life, [it's] the most graceful, amazing thing to happen.

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

Many search for happiness as we look for a hate we wear on our heads.

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.

You are only a young talent, but we don't know how old your soul is.

The surest way to lose sight of who you are is to constantly compare yourself to others.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.