Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on... The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

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.

She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth.

As powerful as anyone may claim God to be, somehow he always needs money.

Republicans like Trent Lott, saying [Donald] Trump would be more flexible [then Ted Cruz].

There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.

To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy. This is success!

Design is the last great competitive advantage.

I've always been for immigration reform; in 2007 I just didn't feel it had enough protections.