Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Art must take reality by surprise.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

I always believe things are going to work out.

You achieve greatness, not by accumulating wealth, but by becoming king, loving, forgiving, and simple.

All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.

Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises.

Just because something awful happens to someone else, it doesn't mean the issues in your life should take any less importance.

The greatest impediments to personal change always come from within, not without.

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.

Have the courage to be selfless in a world were such qualities are not admired. Dare to be differnt. Be crazy!

Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.