Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

Art is a language which anneals individuals to each other through experiences that are uniquely human.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.