A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

You are free to create your own way of being. There are no rules.

Oblivion cures the old wounds.

Brave men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.

Just as we have a physical body, so we have an etheric body and the etheric body is made up of energy, of light.

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

If you must get in trouble, do it at the Chateau Marmont.

Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."

The society, is, a dishwasher, where all the water, is, dead chipmunk blood. God I'm brilliant.