Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.

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.

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

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.

Your dream is your path!

Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not divisive.Those fighting to keep those people out - are.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

I'm composing and writing music.

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

No one should let themselves get used to anything.

In the America I see from here, anything is possible - especially the impossible.