How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

"If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack."

“I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.”

“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”

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

“A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.”

“All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.”

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”

“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.” 

“It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.”

“What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.”

“The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.”

“Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.”

“There’d be a lot less scandal if people didn’t idealize sin and pose as sinners.” 

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. 

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

“Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.”

“Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.” 

The only object of liberty is life.” 

“Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.”

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .