self-acceptance Quotes

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.

If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

It is good for a person who has suffered from acute shyness, as I had, to find that he can cause as much upset as he suffered. Better to be a brute, I thought, than to be a wallflower.

One of the great things about us Jews is that we tell the best jokes. Part of the reason is we tell jokes against ourselves - before anyone else gets to do it.

There's no law that says you have to be consistent in your preferences.

You don't have to be in pursuit of a body beautiful to wish yourself to be the flexuously willowy creature you once were or, failing that, just to be able to pick up something you have dropped.

If you had to say in one sentence what being Jewish means, it is being able to make fun of yourself Jewishly.