If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.
Hold on to your life and make it honest and brave.
Fighting isn't all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, and are satisfied to have food to eat and a place to sleep, are mere vagabonds. A serious student is much more concerned with training his mind and disciplining his spirit than with developing martial skills.
It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.
The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.
When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.
Enemies were teachers in disguise.
Research is fundamental; finding as much as you can and never giving up. I love the research. It is my "precise time". Not just for interviews but of footage, photographs never seen before. It is a painstaking process that satisfies me. The research never ends. I was still researching while I was promoting the Diana Vreeland book. I love reading books and going to original sources.
The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind's eye than any face But that of Christ.
At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.
If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another - then you will lead a series of heavy, attached lives. This can go on for a very long and tedious time.