Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let it be you.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

You can't learn style. Style, I think, is in your DNA.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.