Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

The Beauty that comes from within is the most Beautiful of all

Sometimes the people around you won't understand your journey. They don't need to, it's not for them.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

There's a very distinct difference between a really wonderful DIY label and a soft drink company, or a car company, or a clothing brand, and you will always understand that difference.

We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.

After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.

We didn't have time to go tobogganing, because we didn't have the toboggan.

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw--that of outright unreadability.

If [Donald] Trump succeeds, then Trump will be the change agent.

Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself.