It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.

All I'm saying is that you should show some respect for what other people see with their eyes and feel with their fingers, even though it be the exact opposite.

It is so.When YOU think so

If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

My opinion is a view I hold until... well, until I find something that changes it.

If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

I get called 'Mayor West' a lot in airports. I've been very fortunate to have a fan base that keeps growing, and the work gets such a warm response and humor from people.

If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.

The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.

Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return of another such calamity.

The power of light is always bigger than the power of darkness.

Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life.

You do not HAVE to be angry just because you have the right to be angry.

Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.

He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.