If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Critique by creating.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touchThe stone unhewn and coldBecomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.

It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice… there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowering others––especially the least of these, the precious and priceless wretched of the earth!

Suicide is the utmost sincere and candid apology to the ones you hurt most

Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is

All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.

Consumers don't think how they feel. They don't say what they think and they don't do what they say.

all theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed.

She [Monica Vitti] was a great actress, but a very difficult person. I am not in contact with her at the moment because she is very sick. Not a generous woman, I have to say. I don't see her much.

Be true to yourself, and stick with who you are through thick and thin without letting anyone dilute your essence.

When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without that doubt.

Somehow, you realize you can kind of do anything in music. You don't have to be good at a certain thing; you can just do whatever you want.