We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

i’m going to love again so quietlyno one will know i’m home.

Anything is better than stagnation.

When you travel, somehow, the world gets both bigger and smaller, simultaneously.

The first and most important person you must believe in is yourself.

When in doubt, favor compassionover certainty or tradition.

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

Even the prettiest performers and even the most handsome performers, when they get that opportunity, they still need to step up to the plate and deliver.

Marilyn is real. I wake up and I am Marilyn.

My new house is going to have wall-to-wall awards!

[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).