“Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.”

We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

In chaos, there is fertility.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

You cannot save people, you can only love them.

It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.

What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.

People don’t want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it’s different.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.

I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.