True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

We only hurt others because we don't love ourselves. Learning to truly love yourself changes your relationship with everyone.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

The feeling of being 'offended' is a warning indicator that is showing you where to look within yourself for unresolved issues.

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

I feel that what you should illustrate is the space between the words. It's the betweenness, the otherness, that gives depth and dimension.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.

You always have that moment where you grow up and you're like, "Oh, my god, I'm being exactly like my mother." I think that's everyone's greatest hope and worst fear.

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

People who know my stage act know it's nothing but pushing boundaries.

If anybody wants to believe they're the descendants of a primate, they're welcome to do it.

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.

I can't let things go when it comes to stop painting. It has to be my way.