All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

But why I cry out against Rubens is because he painted undressed people instead of naked ones.