Never choose a situation which is a burden to your command only to satisfy fellows' standards

You are not smoking cigarette, it's cigarette that is smoking you.

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.

There's no perfect relationship. All relationships are work. If you put in the work, you'll reap the rewards.

I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the back of envelope what I had to pay this month.

The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.

The whole thing with eastern music and instruments, I love all that stuff.

To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.

Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.

The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.