Art persists, it timelessly continues.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

You are never left out from having the experience of love. You can always give and receive love right from where you are at. It's always up to you.

I wanted someone above me in the chain of life. I didn't want to be alone, a single blue egg in a crumbling nest.

It is more than love, barely less than madness. It’s never close enough.

Endurance is a key indicator of spiritual fitness.

Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.

Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man.

We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.

As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn't, but it wasn't hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.

No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.

One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.