I have to work in England, but here in America you don't have to work. You can sort of enter the profession of being.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Vice is its own reward.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

Don’t let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another—if we seek it.

it doesn't matter what others think or say it just matters what you do

Just when you think we're living in a little bit of a divided world, music brings us together.

I'm not a businessperson. I have no sense of money. My mom does everything for me. She makes all my decisions for me, and even buys my clothes. She's very protective.

It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.

To the counsell of fooles a woodden bell.

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

I have never let gender get in my way. It has taken me over 30 years to get from a garage to the huge campus that we have today. And it's been a long journey.

It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something.

O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!