To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.