I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Don't expect and wait for justice to happen immediately, it will never happen before the TIME. Also, you never will get beyond your LUCK. Remember that Kurukshetra war took place after a long wait.

The light was different here in California.

I appreciate everything that I have, versus taking it for granted.

While GOP elites say they're shocked, shocked, by [Donald] Trump's religious bigotry, this is far from the first time Islamophobia has bubbled up in their party.

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

Paradise is where I am

If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means

It is conceivable that at some point a truly united and powerful European Union could become a global political rival to the United States.