We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish sincerely and energetically.
Weep for the lives your wishes never led.
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.
My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
All that we are not stares back at what we are.
Anything that you give your attention to will become your "truth". . . The Law of attraction says that it must. Your life and everyone else's too is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts. There is no exception to this.
Every film I've made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life from opposing points of view, which has been in every film I've ever done. It had all the ingredients of the kinds of films I like to do.
I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.