Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep. Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast away a pair of old shoes.

Receive a guest with the same attitude you have when alone. When alone, maintain the same attitude you have in receiving guests.

Have the fearless attitude of a hero and the loving heart of a child.

My heart burns like fire but my eyes are as cold as dead ashes.

Do not regret the past. Look to the future.

Love is pure, perfect, precise, and precious.

Be a great artist especially when you draw your life’s picture.

His desire for this to be a joke was quickly replaced by a desire for whiskey.

It's a tradition to drink rakia with snacks. Not like the Russians, you know, who just drink to get drunk. I like a little snack with the news.

The human body is supposed to be 70 percent water. I consider myself 70 percent film

There's an awful lot of biblical ignorance, and the church perpetuates that ignorance.

The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.

A Britain which denounced the insanity of the nuclear strategy would be in a position to direct its influence at the United Nations and in the world at large, in a manner at present denied us

You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology

Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.