The drawback of stealing a thing, is that one never knows how wonderful the thing that one steals is.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast

There is nothing like race, is there?

I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love.

I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.

Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.

A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean … or what we really think.

She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

I told you there was no such thing as immortality, not even for dragons.

India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.

Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity.

True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility.

I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.

The carrot and the stick are prevasive and persuasive motivators. But if you treat people like donkeys, they will perform like donkeys.

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.