The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

An eye for an eye makes you feel happy inside...- unless you're the second eye

The proper function of man is to live-not to exist.

I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

I guess what inspires me is when I am watching somebody else do something that really has an impact on me. That inspires me to want to do that in return.

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.

Forgetting is a blessing; remembering is a blessing! We are lucky that we can forget; we are lucky that we can remember!

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

At least I died trying. And I won.I never gave them away. I never hurt them. I did my best to find them. I tried to keep my promise... I die for them.