The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine

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.

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

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.

Facts you can bend. Memories are much stronger things.

HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

If you've got nothing else, passion will get you through.

I wouldnt be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word.

Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Elizabeth Taylor has a big heart. She recently built a halfway house for girls who don't want to go all the way.

I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.