"People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything."

"I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."

"I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return."

"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best"

"I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior."

"I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint."

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

"The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being."

"People see God every day, they just don't recognize him."

"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."

"It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in."

"The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress."