For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

I am not now That which I have been.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

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

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Common sense is not so common.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

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

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.