I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

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

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

That which costs little is less valued.

Effective action is always unjust.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

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

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

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

Once you label me you negate me.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

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

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.