Be that self which one truly is.

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

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

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

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

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.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.