The image is one thing and the human being is another… it's very hard to live up to an image.

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

Exuberance is beauty.

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos.

The world only exists in your eyes... You can make it as big or as small as you want.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.