Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Last year I sang for the Queen of England, met the president of the United States, and got an Emmy and a star on The Walk of Fame. And what did I do? I was just being myself.
If we are not free, no one will respect us.
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child
How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.
Live your life and forget your age.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
If I get married, I want to be very married.