The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

There is a huge difference between thinking we know something and actually knowing something.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Virtues, of ... Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

As long as we define stress as how some person or situation is making us feel, we will have to change the world around us to find peace of mind.

Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?

I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.

I'm into carpooling, because sometimes my car gets hot and needs to refresh itself.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

Every popular zillion dollar sport has its share of personal scandals around the sport and its leadership.

The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.