Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Our desire shall be our delight in the Lord.

to be nobody but yourself- in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

I like to be challenged. I like rebellion. It adds some richness and some interest to life.

I like real girls. When they're in bed with you, it's not a show. They just want to do that.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Whosoever will reign with Christ in heaven, must have Christ reigning in him on earth

People are a lot more open than even they think they are. And I feel like I carry a heavy story about where I come from and those roots, but also what I like as a thinker.

The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness.

No one should be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.