Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.

Everyone has a kind of limitation respectively. Leaders don’t allow their own to obscure them in a small corner.

To alter the universe, alter your thoughts, because the only universe you will ever know is in your mind.

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

When people come to my shows, they have the freedom to feel something, and we're all just a big bowl of feels.

There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.

Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.

Anyone can look pretty with hair and make-up.

The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.