The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.

There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.

Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

Time cures one of everything-even of living.

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

‎Women fancy admiration means more than it does.

We all were courageous in the starting moments, few of us stayed courageous till the final moments and the world called them successful men.

It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable.

You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life, ' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true.

I am a businessman. I am anything I need to be at any time.

Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction.

It’s like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit.

She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This was the effect she had on me.

I know that so many women don't have a choice. They could lose their job if they say, 'I need to leave because I don't have childcare.'

Hillary's [Clinton] got some problems with Millennials.