Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

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

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

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Freedom is from within.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

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

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.