"People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities."

"The new national campfire - radio."

"I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that."

"If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time."

"One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf."

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."

"I passionately hate the idea of being with it I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."

"We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis."