"We need a more peaceful world, growing out of more peaceful families and neighborhoods and communities. To secure and cultivate such peace, "we must love others, even our enemies as well as our friends""

“I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come in for a meeting chewing gum and I'll forget I'm chewing it. Then you don't want to swallow it because it stays in your system for seven years or something, so I've asked to throw it away. I've started to wonder if that's why I didn't get certain movies.”

“Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.”

“Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.”

Source : Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.22, Metropolitan Museum of Art

“Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.”

Source : Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee

“The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero.”

“In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.”

Source : "The Transition to a Global Society". Book by Kishor Gandhi, p. 17, 1991.

“This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.”