On how he sees himself: A person with no roots anywhere…a stranger everywhere.

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.

Live with purpose. Don’t let people or things around you get you down.

I have firmly resolved to bite the dust, when my time comes, with a minimum of medical assistance, and up to then I will sin to my wicked heart’s content.

Long live impudence! It’s my guardian angel in this world.

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.

We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.

At any rate, I am convinced that He does not play dice.

When you say ‘Black is beautiful’ you are saying, ‘Man you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as a human being.

It’s a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I’d be rotten to the core.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

Beauty is a delightful prejudice.

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.