Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.

Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.

I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.

The more I see of Italy and her treasures, the more I see paganism in Christianity.

As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

Peace through superior firepower.

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.

I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.