An artist is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone.

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.

Wonder begets culture, which begets yet more wonder, and the end of wonder is wisdom, which is the state of perpetual wonder.

Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.

Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.

The problem with studying is that it gets in the way of education.

Love is like chickenpox. It's much worse when it comes late.

Of all funny things, truth is the funniest.

Oh! to shoot for the stars if feels right. Aim for my heart if it feels right.

No man thinks the same story when looking at a photo because every mind lived a different story!

When you're touring, you're constantly in motion.

It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.

It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

I feel that I was a good all-around player, I had good speed, a good arm and could play the outfield.

Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.

He Who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things Asleep upon a chair.

Great expectations are placed on this generation for the establishment of peaceful and neighborly relations in the North Caucasus.