"To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art."

“Whenever I see people with their collars up, I'm tempted to point it out to them like you would for someone who has a food stain on their shirt or food in their teeth, as if to say, 'Your fashion sense is so offensive I'm assuming it's some sort of accident you'll want to fix.”

“When we went into the New England states, people were talking about the new sound of Flatt & Scruggs, but we had been doing that sound for 20 years.”

“Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?”

“As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into the middle of situations, then intelligence arises automatically.”

“Why would you ever rest from what you love?”

Source : Michael Maccoby (2012). “Narcissistic Leaders: Who Succeeds and Who Fails”, p.30, Crown Business

“A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.”

“I love life too much to be bitter.”

Source : "Sarkozy Tells His Aides He Is Quitting Active Politics" by Sanya Khetani, www.businessinsider.com. May 07, 2012.

“It's so important to do something every day that will make you happy”