Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

All beginnings are hard.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.

Monsters have the worst taste in women.

Whatever you do don't let anybody talk you into doing something about the way you look ever.

The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day.

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over fear, compassion over selfishness.

O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.

Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

That's the drama of our sport. Our margin of error is so small that anything can happen.

Against Juventus we were massive underdogs, so to beat them was fantastic.