You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.

Dear God, teach me to be careless.

I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure!

My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I understand them.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

There is a sacred cost for everything.

How can you reform when you are always busy conforming?

Where some see a new world disorder, others see the opportunity to bring organization.

I always find it funny when I watch actors talking about, 'I chose to do this part.' A lot of times it's 'you're lucky to get the job.' We're like, 'Thank you so much.'

All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.

I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful.

Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.

On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.