I think really good books can be read by anybody.

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.

A good book written for children can be read by adults

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

It is better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.

People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people.

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

We live in a moment that is pregnant with possibility.

A human being can never be broken

I hope we don't see no paparazzi today. Because I'm still getting acquainted with these jogging pants I threw on. Like, 'That's not my statement!'

If we don't teach kids how to be alone, they will end up only lonely.

All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.