"No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by."

"In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans."

"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."

"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."

"Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want."

"In today's world, no State, however powerful, can protect itself on its own. Likewise, no country, weak or strong, can realize prosperity in a vacuum."

"Boldness in itself is genius."

"There was a star danced, and under that was I born."

"Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money."

"The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself."

"Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other."

"Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters."