Pierre Favre

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Mr. Watson , come here, I want you

Are you doing what you’re doing today because you want to do it or because it’s what you were doing yesterday?

Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.

With all the wealth of the world at hand, there are human beings who hunger, whole nations who suffer cold. The judgment for this condition, for misusing Nature’s gifts, is the judgment upon man’s failure, man’s unsteadiness. Leadership is the thing.

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

If you can find a way to be truly ambivalent about what people think about you as an artist you’re completely freed up because you just end up doing things that turn you on creatively, and then as a person you really try and drown the noise.

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

You’ve got to teach youngsters the difference between right and wrong, but you shouldn’t try to poke it down their throats. Let them ask the questions and then give them the answers.

The more natural, the better.