It's always better to be kind than right.

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.

Art is a protest against death.

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.

Afflictions clarify the soul; And like hard masters, give more hard directions, Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections.

In France, like in most countries, the respect you receive depends on your class.

We make and sell a very, very large number of (hopefully) beautiful, well-made things. Our success is a victory for purity, integrity - for giving a damn.

Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up.

A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.