Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

I don't want the cheese. I just want to get out of the trap.

With bread and wine you can walk your road.

From a fallen tree all make kindling.

You can't have more bugs than a blanketful.

Don't offer me advice give me money.

Drink nothing without seeing it sign nothing without reading it.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

He who fears death cannot enjoy life.

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

I accept emotional pain, walk through it, and then come through the other side.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

I always try to do something very different with each character because that's why I like to do this, because I can become someone else completely and it's fun.

Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

Donald Trumps' senior advisor said on CNN that the US Presidential election was the ultimate reality TV show! Appeal to those you want to reach!

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.