People don't smile because they're happy. They're happy because they smile.

I want my wife to wake me up with a sweet kiss

Life is Happiness. Happiness is the fact that I can do something right now.

If I get married one day, or meet the girl I like, I’ll prepare 100m to 150m of candles, or maybe red carpet

Love when it comes, its easy. But when it leaves, its like dying.

Remember that the three words that kills learning are "I already know".

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.

Timeliness is best in all matters.

It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.

Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra.

If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.