Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.

Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

The difference between you and me is that you think to live and I live to think.

Every thought vibrates through the universe.

Men would always rather be made love to than talked at.

Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

The better you hear a thing put, the more certain you are there's another view.

Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.

Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.

Love rules without rules. (Amore regge senza legge.)

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.

When I get home and turn on the radio, I hear songs that are new to me, but to everybody else they're old. I try to keep the music fresh in my head.

You don't have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to have bipartisan friendships in this place. Life's too short to have it any other way.

What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!

Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.

Tyranny is always weakness

There is just no end to reality. You can keep going closer into it, but you never ever come out the other end.

...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.

I think I am example for our scene, so I have to be an example for the rest.