Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

Do not let your negative thoughts have power over you because those thoughts will end up controlling your life. No one can live a positive life with a negative mind.

You make me want things that I can't have.

Sexiness is all about your personality, being genuine and confident, and being a good person.

I spend so much time in my studio, which can be very dark, so it can begin to feel as if I'm a mole underground.

Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light.

Ask me a question. Don't say talk about it, ask me a question. I'm not going to talk about it if it isn't a question.

How refreshing. A suspect beaten up BEFORE the LAPD showed up.

I lost you when you left me to find yourself.

If it were not for people who stepped forward and gave me opportunities at a time when I had not proved myself at all, believe me, I would not have a career.