“We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”
I'm the oldest son of a crazy man, I'm in a cowboy band.
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
I have to be seen to be believed.
“You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?”
Women have always been the strong ones of the world.
“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Politics, like cancer, kills poetry.
Many times questions are more important than answers.
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to use it.
The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.
A man is sometimes more generous when he has no money than when he has a lot.
I would like to be remembered as a person who wants to be free…so other people would also be free.
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
We want to live and we are afraid of the unknown. That’s why we invent fairy tales that all our dreams come true.
I hate writing, I love having written.
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.