“You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.”

Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance.

Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don’t, you are working.

It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise.

I’m here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.

Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role.

Don’t work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone.

There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness.

You either don’t, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.

You’re going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there’s no life expectancy.

Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession.

They would be very disappointed that they didn’t meet their life expectancy.

Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they’re 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation.

We learn the true worthlessness of material things. We celebrate being human. Loving is good for the soul…

Loving someone has great benefits.

It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.

You will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated.

There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.

It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.

Women need to be less squeamish about making money.

The older I get, I guess I wear less sparkles.

If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.

When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.