You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!

Once again, the world seems to be less about objects than about interactive relationships.

How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal father?

…struck. Once. And into that blow he put his childhood, his grief, his loss. He put his mother’s sorrow and his sister’s longing. The menorah, weighed down with that, crushed the Hermit’s skull.

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.

Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.

You are the crown of creation, and you've got no place to go.

I excelled in English while I was at school.

There's two things that you don't listen to: flattery, which can't help you, and abuse, which can't hurt you. You have to look at the facts.

Truth is not a mystery - its greatest secrets are yours to know through simple honesty and surrender to what that honesty reveals.

We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.