I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

When one teaches, two learn.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.

My home kitchen is airy, with a gas stove, a stainless-steel island table in the center and granite countertops. It's very modest but there's tons of counter space, so you can slap down three or four cutting boards.

Ultimately, the perfect meal is when those things come together - circumstance, the food, ambiance, and you're with the person that you want to be with.

I'm 27. I feel like I get it. I'm OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I'm brainy, some days I'm funny, some days I'm sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance.

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.

Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.

I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Brainy's the new sexy.

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.