An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could not let that happen.

We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old.

I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying.

I just had a responsibility to [Taylor Swift] as a friend you know, and I mean thanks for being so cool about it.

The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

Love God, Embrace beauty, Live life to the fullest.

Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time".

If you have no shame, and it’s your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?

Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.

At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.