You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.

Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.

Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.