Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.

If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

Learning is a process not an event.

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

My parents are private investigators for God's sake.

Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are embarrassed by the miracle, and crushed by remonstrance.

I fell a bit in love with Celtic, because the atmosphere was amazing and the crowd was magnificent, the way they behaved with the Porto fans.

because talent alone doesn't make an artist

There's a time for casting silver; a time for casting cannon. If that isn't in the red, it should be!

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.