If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

I really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

All my favorite artists and fashion icons and models are from the Nineties. Everybody was just so fearless.

I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‚X100PRE‘ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Young people can create beautiful things.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

There is spontaneity to my work.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy – even beyond the market opportunities – that’s something that appropriately ought to be done.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.