In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself.

Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

True friends share everything, except the past before they met.

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

I think the feeling that we're going to work together again usually starts to come up before the first project's even done. The Black Keys and I have already talked about starting on something new.

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.

I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.