The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.