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

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Memory... is an internal rumour.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.