Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Enlighten every life with love to shine.

Success only comes to who is seeking every moment towards it

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.

The impact remains to be seen; I don't think we can measure the enduring impact of John Paul II, for example, for another hundred, perhaps two hundred, years.

If the Internet has given us anything, it's some idea of how much psychosis goes undiagnosed.

Stay put in the hard places, and you'll eventually rest upon the mountaintop.

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

There is no religion of terrorism.