Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

It is not our abilities that show who we truly are, it is our choices.

The sea has testified that Africa and Europe have kissed

In order to have a peace that surpasses all understanding, you have to give up your right to understand

My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere.

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

Would that everyone might know that I would be already damned if it were not for Mary!

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

I just close my eyes and I fantasize what I would like to see.

One never repents of having spoken too little but often of having spoken too much.

Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science fiction show, I'm all in, in that regard.