When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.

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

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

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.

The Lord created you and protects you always

If we occupy our minds with self-loathing or negative thoughts, then maybe we don’t have enough to do.

I do look for the good in everyone. I also give them a chance to be their best, and I try to cope with my disappointment when they're not

Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.

I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an "I hate skinny" mentality.

God's greatest gift to you is your unlimited potential. Your greatest gift to God is to use that potential to the fullest.

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

Not like I need an excuse to enjoy a Moscow mule, but this tray and six-mug set, handmade in Mexico with hammered recycled copper, makes cocktail hour extra special.

Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against the public interest.

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.