When I look back on my work, I'm proud of what I've done.

We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.

Man must be free or he will not survive.

He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.(on Liszt)

I don't claim to have an answer to every question, but I promise you I have a question for every answer.

Senator [Ted] Cruz is not qualified to be president because he doesn't have the right temperament and acted like a maniac when he arrived in the Senate.

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

Alas for him who seeks salvation in good only! Balanced on God's strong shoulders, Good and Evil flap together like two mighty wings and lift him high.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.

Only when you stop doing what doesn't work, can things get better.