Make my happiness--I will make yours.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Conventionality is not morality.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

Where we are is vital to who we are.

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Like a virgin, touched for the very first time.

A lot of people have been overexposed. Where people are fed up. I pray that that never happens with me.

As we express our appreciation of our many blessings, we become more conscious of what the Lord has done for us, and thereby we become more appreciative

Life figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession.

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.