Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.
You were born to be amazing.
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.
People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.
He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...
It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the fu...