We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in peace and freedom, without thoughts of tomorrow and this eternal struggle against idiots.

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.

My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing.

We're so grateful that we're able to provide this opportunity for our current and past graduates.

Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to.

One thing that will make you quit smoking is sitting across from Keith Richards all night. I don't mind being ugly, but I sure don't want to look like that.

Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form of consciousness is captured in the laboratory.

God is a spa-bath of water and we are all individual bubbles

...is the carbon molecule lined with thought?

The elections would be free and democratic, and any result would have to be accepted.

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.