Destiny cuts the cake of love, Three slices to some, To others, a crumb.

That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.

Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.

"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.

If you meet an angel, you will have not peace, but a fever.

Destiny cutsthe cake of love, Three slices to some, To others, a crumb.

[T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.

When I'm in love, I can't stand anyone.

Premature satisfaction with half-success is a dream-killer of ambition, nobody should indulge in it.

Your personal and professional lives will have to go hand in hand and will have influence on each other.

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not lack of ability and lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

I worked every day - Christmas Eve, birthdays - trying to become a great basketball player. Everywhere I went, I had a basketball.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

I believe that art has incredible power.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

I try to make the set as relaxed and fun and stress-free as humanly possible, while still having control over things. It's usually tension that hurts a performance or makes it seem self-conscious.

The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.