Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

What is to give light must endure burning.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

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

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

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

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.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

I am not now That which I have been.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.