[The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Reason. The point where man begins to find that he exists.

I can trust my friends. ... These people force me to examine myself encourage me to grow.

49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way.

Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?" "By leaping into the Void? Not really.

Learning means making errors. Those who are learning spiritually make errors just the way anyone does when he is growing.

Objective reality - otherwise known as the truth - matters.

Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for.

You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're just looking at me with a football uniform on. That's a totally different person. That's my job, that's it.

I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.

I have to feel that each thing I've learned I can push to another point next time. I'm not very good with repetition. I would rather not work than feel that repetition is the order of the day.