The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others.

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.

For gypsies do not like to stay - They only come to go away.

It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.

In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.

I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

Only one who has known how troubled life can be, has a real appreciation of it when it is good

For gypsies do not like to stay -They only come to go away.

Success is not about how others feel about you, its about how you feel about yourself.

You are a mirror of the Almighty...this is the reason you were created...your purpose.

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

I'm the type of person where, A., I look at things as challenges, I like challenges and, B., I truly believe that you determine your own destiny.

Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism.

I call myself a Sanatani Eternal Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by the name of Hindu scripture, and therefore in avataras and rebirth.

Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up.

I want the world to be better because I was here.

Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.