If you can talk about it, why paint it?

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.

Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

You have to be taught to hate.

What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship.

Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'

I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.

I don't expect our leaders to be free of mistakes, I expect our leaders to own up to them.