In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

In school we learn to think alike, but true education is to learn how to think differently.

It is wise to know God.

You must dare to dream.

Insanity is not a fit topic for high-school children.

My father said the weakest camel draws the wolves.” “Mine told me to hide until the wolves go away, ” Abban replied.

It's clever but is it art?

The people who work in the fashion industry and the people who work in the film industry have a lot in common. They're very creative. Their eye is very aesthetic.

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

You cannot play for safety and make art.

It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)