I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful.

Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. "They're straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won't die."

Dictators lead through fear; good coaches do not.

There should be less talk. . . . What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

I did not plan to have such a career in the fashion world. All that I wanted, was to have ten kids and raise them!