Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

To love God is to love your neighbour.

The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.

When it comes to skin care, I like to keep things simple. I'm not the type of person who runs out to have facials.

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

Whatever you experience outwardly, take it within yourself and say 'I'm happy because I'm happy. I'm happy because God is in my heart.'

Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it!

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.

I am not a failure if I don't succeed; I am successful because I tried.