A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

That which costs little is less valued.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.