It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!

A new challenge keeps the brain kicking and the heart ticking.

The one who becomes free from all kinds of beggary is bestowed the state of a ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one].

A cold word from a cold man sends shivers throughout my body but my heart remains warm

From the first she showed a curious sensitivity to what, I suppose, may be called the 'influences' of the place. She said it 'smelled' of ghosts and warlocks.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses.

Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life, I love the food, I love the people, I love the attitudes of Italians.

The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.