"There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions."

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."

"When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others."

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

"I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles."

"The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number."

"If you have a beautiful face you don't need big fake boobs to get anyone's attention."

"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task."

"If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even the third place."

"It's getting hard to be someone, but it all works out."

"Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them."