"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."

"There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do."

"Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning."

"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."

"He who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine."

"Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'."

"It is a quiet truth that great leaders cultivate leaders, not merely followers — an essential principle for the reflective life."