The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Vice is its own reward.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

Wonderful things happen due to positive beliefs and good karma. Change your mind set to earn good karma and to make your life beautiful.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The grace of existence is the power of giving.

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.

Never cut loose from your longings.

If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

I have seen the future, and it works.

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.