The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.

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.

So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.

Our prayers must be in accordance with [God’s] will. He knows better what is good for us than we know ourselves.

When he opens his mouth to speak, I place a finger on his

... the first step to eternal live is you have to die.

From success you get a lot of things but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started traveling and had a lot of absences.

At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we have forgotten. We've forgotten the purpose of life.

All songs are about shagging, you can't deny it

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

[Identity liberalism] is about recognition and self-definition. It's narcissistic. It's isolating. It looks within. And it also makes two contradictory claims on people.