Punctuality is the thief of time.

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.

Life is like a painting, seems smooth and glorious but you can see its dullness when you are near it.

...letting go of attachment to any way of believing or thinking has made me feel more expanded and almost transparent so that universal energy can just flow through me.

The risen Lord is the new Temple, the real meeting place between God and man.

Most people don't think about plyometrics when they think about powerful strength. But I do lots of them to build mine.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

So pay attention, it's not hard to decipher, And after the horns, you can check out the Phifer

It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.