“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.”

“There are two kinds of perfect: The one you can never achieve, and the other, by just being yourself.”

“If i can do just one tenth of the goodMichael Jackson did for others, i can really make a difference in this world”

“This is one of those things that you can never explain to anyone; that's what I want to explain - one of those free-association moments with connections that dissolve when you start to try to put them into words.”

“I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.”

“In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.”