His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

No life is a waste, " the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.

One wonders what would happen in a society where there were no rules to break. Doubtlessly everyone would quickly die of boredom.

True, the body's easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled - yet there's that in a man that is never destroyed.

Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.

Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.

Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.

Sometimes, we are dealing with our own troubles and feel that we don't have the resources to help one another. Or simply, we just don't know what to do.

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.