If you are creative, you get busier as you get older.

I think if you have a passion for what you do then there are no limitations on how long or how much you can accomplish.

I have an awful lot to learn. My dream is to get better and better as I get older.

I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.

Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.

To work is to feel alive.

"Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.

There is no one who was supposed to come to this world and leave empty.

A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.

Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice

She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying.

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

He who labours, prays.

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.