Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.

He who disagrees with me in private, call him a fool. He who disagrees with me in public, call him an ambulance.

Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six.

If you only ever read one book in your life ... I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut.

Like bees around honey. Why are bees so attracted to honey, since they make it? It can only be vanity.

The truly beautiful are often abused for apparent ugliness just as those with great vision often bump into things.

When you look in the mirror and despair and none of your clothes seem appropriate, relax, put the kettle on. It might suit you.

What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what?

Fish deserve to be caught for they are lazy. Two million years of evolution and they still haven't got out of the water.

All men are brothers. Hence war.

Like many supermodels, I won't get out of bed for less than £3000. Unlike many supermodels, I don't get out of bed very often.

Women always bring it back to the personal, ' said Handsome. 'It's why you can't be world leaders.''And men never do, ' I said, 'which is why we end up with no world left to lead.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

I have my whole office set-up at waist level; I don't sit at all during the day. Sitting, to me, is the devil.

People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

Every time someone turns on a TV, I go in the other room and read.

The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.

Every role that you accept makes you grow in some way. It's part of the creative process.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.