In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

I'll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals.

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.

[To waiter who had spilled soup on her:] Never darken my Dior again!

I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair.

Never darken my Dior again!

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty).And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

Photos’re better than nothing, but things’re better than photos ’cause the things themselves were part of what was there.

I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.

Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.

With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.

How much an ill word may empoison liking!

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

Sundance claimed to be "rebellious" on all of their programs, but they are not. Most of the movies at Sundance were multi-million dollar pictures that were already guaranteed a theatrical release.