The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.

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.

I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.

I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

Before I even came into office, I said that preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon was a priority.

There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

I probably play games more than I practice.

I started thinking of digital imaging, not photography, in 1994 as it seemed the most appropriate way to deal with ideas of biotechnology and advertising. My practice is conceptual.

How often we forget to dedicate ourselves to that which truly matters! We forget that we are children of God.

The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.