He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.

We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, moving with purpose.

You behold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough to produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind.

It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

With you it is always the law, never equity.

What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward.

Oh, you are mad!" she exclaimed, quite out of patience."Possibly. But I like my madness.

If only one person were perfectly informed there could never be a general crisis. But the only perfectly informed person is God, and he does not play the stock market.

Every breath you take is a step forward toward death. (Hazrat Ali-As)

As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.

A line is length without breadth.

I began to practise day and night, and the more I did, the more I was overwhelmed by the tremendous achievement of that great family of black American musicians I was beginning to know closely.

A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.

When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean.

You have no idea how expensive it is to look this cheap.

There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring.

Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.