[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

While games are fun to play, children should grow up not just being the consumers of technology but also the creators of technology.

Remember that your attitude towards life determines life’s attitude toward you. At any moment, you can choose to change everything for the better.

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

There never was a champion who to himself was a good loser. There's a vast difference between a good sport and a good loser.

A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

I'm a mama's boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won't do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that's opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet.