Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

When you have a kid in your house, it's time to learn rather than teach!!!

Going to the opera like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.

I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from now. The bell's gonna ring pretty soon.

We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

Wild women don't get the blues.

I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.