I like to be nice to people, but sometimes people aren't nice to me.
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.
The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.
Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.
Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.
[On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once and for ever, 'Let them go,' than in feeling them waste and dwindle, till their very shadows escape from our grasp!
How much I wish I could tell you, Dad How much you mean to me. . . . But there are no words to say How much I admire you. . . appreciate you. . . thank you for everything you've done. love you Actually, there are I've just used them How much I wish you A happy, happy birthday Dad
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.