The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

you may always find good books to read but the best and the ultimate book to read is the Holy Bible

Birthdays were made for going wild over the people we think are amazing.

I'd love to design a school.

The perfect moment, once lost, is not easily found again.

The statement is that I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time.

I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.

I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.

I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.

The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.