It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

If we don't know how to deal with sin then we don't know how to deal with people.

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography.

We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

You have to have a talent for having talent.

Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.

No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.