Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

All for one, one for all, that is our device.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

All for one and one for all.

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

All for one, one for all.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Be good, be young, be true. Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world there is only the comparison of one state with another nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.

Happiness is egotistical.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one you will never want to live again only to dream forever.

We must never expect discretion in first love it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow it will choke you.

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.

Hatred is blind, rage carries you away, and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.

The proper way to check slander is to despise it; attempt to overtake and refute it, and it will outrun you.

Slander and libel would not have such a force, if stupidity did not pave their way.

A good surgeon operates with his hand, not with his heart.

All human wisdom is contained in these two words--Wait and Hope.

All for one, and one for all.

However anxious one is to reach one's goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

My art became very public.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.