What we need now are new stories to share with each other, new tales to live into the world, which is to say, stories to make real by living our own versions of them.

Remember that self-doubt is as self-centered as self-inflation. Your obligation is to reach as deeply as you can and offer your unique and authentic gifts as bravely and beautifully as you're able.

Happily chatting and counting pocket change, patting each other on the back and whistling foolish songs, we go out on the thousand-legged street and miraculously turn into passersby.

One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.

I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself.

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

Here you go, she said. I don't need it anymore. I'm very grateful. I think it may have saved my life, saved some other people's death.

I am convinced that in times such as these, every man must be a soldier, in substance as well as in name.

A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house

In my life why do I smile at people I'd rather kick in the eye?

A circle is the longest distance to same point.

We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.