... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like fiction. That's me.

The most important thing, the biggest love of my life, is my snooker. Ive never been so emotionally ingrained in something - in a person, an object, anything - as I have in snooker.

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

If you want to save the humankind, you should first take care of Nature.It's the legacy that we leave behind, That brings us hope, that's for sure!

What you think, what you eat, and what you see today, shapes who you will be tomorrow.

But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people.

To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me.

I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion.

For a pediatrician to attack what has become the "bread and butter" of pediatric practice is equivalent to a priest denying the infallibility of the pope.

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth,-as some kinds of creatures do their food; to be ruminated upon.