"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."

"There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change."

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

"A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one."

"Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions."

"A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere."

"Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian."