When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now."

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

There’s a difference between a miracle, and something impossible. A miracle is not impossible—just merely unlikely.

I see myself as Kiki de Montparnasse, trying to get Man Ray's attention. (Sofia Navarro, 7th July 2012).

She saw the deepness that was at the edge of France and it made the beach under her feel like a ledge on a cliff.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

90% of people are in jobs they hate and are bitter about their lives and scratching about for money. That's my worst nightmare.

So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.

I am suspending my presidential campaign.

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals.

Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.