I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.

By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress.

Sometimes awful things have their own beauty.

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.

The sea only drowns its lovers.

I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.

Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested.

Don't let the guilt of the past keep you from the victories of the future.

And I understood that I ought not ask for a prayer language until I could ask without making it the test of my entire faith.

Art was my little private pleasure. Nobody had seen my art, not even my parents. Andy didn't know about it. My dream was to become a publisher, not an artist lost in New York.

I believe in characters that can be tangible, and that you can actually relate to.

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.

A visit to Père Lachaise in Paris adds a year to one's life

Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from the past.

You can't conserve what you haven't got.

Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from.

Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.