A great artist has to be ready to fail.

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.

Is death the last sleep? No it is the last final awakening.

Some people think to be strong is to never feel pain. However the strongest people are the ones that have felt pain, understood it, accepted it and learned from it.

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

Being evil is something that only humans are capable of.

Boxing is always serious. Nothing comical or funny about boxing.

Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free.

Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

Put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions.