The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

Give up trying to make me give up

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.

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.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

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

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

Boards don't hit back.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

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