Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.

It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Art is not about something, Art is something

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.

Well if God wanted a broken spirit out of me, He would get Hiswish. At this point in my life the only thing I could do was look up.

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

My conscious mind must have its roots and origins in the most unfathomable depths of being, yet it feels as if it lived all by itself in this tight little skull.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different- life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself- a girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

Siamese Cats have a way of staring at you. Those who have walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will know the expression.

I'm a pretty basic surfer.

I think America is a hard nut to crack. But once you get a toehold, it's a great place for an entrepreneur because people are so enthusiastic, and you have the most enthusiastic audiences in world.

Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.