I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

A woman in want must wait for the appointed time.

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.

Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.