I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Travel means a lot of learning experience to me".

Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality.

The cat in gloves catches no mice.

In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.

It's a big change for a country boy like me, to be in the limelight in New York City. It was most definitely a tough adjustment.

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.

If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.