One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in peace and freedom, without thoughts of tomorrow and this eternal struggle against idiots.

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.

She was strength and power and so many things he’d pretended for twelve years he didn’t miss, didn’t need.

The shortest answer is doing.

Thanksgiving creates abundance; and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks-and He miraculously makes it more than enough.

Sometimes even lawyers need lawyers.

I fell asleep during 'Year One' twice. And my son, who never falls asleep during a Jack Black movie, also nodded off. That's how bad it was. I was incredibly disappointed.

Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know.

Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

To offer women something that feels more about investing in something and less about being disposable is a complete corrective to the world we live in

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.