The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

The first key to leadership is self-control.

Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.

I was with Essien Udom in Nigeria.

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, 'I wonder what's going to happen today.' And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.

Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.