But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.