A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.

You know if you would just do as I say I wouldn't have to hurt you.

Years ago you followed someonehere, in love with breathkissing the nape of your neck, back when it was easy to beat least two places at once.

There are no Asian movie stars

Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.

When you watch my films, you're feeling my heart.

I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

The longer we remain in Iraq the more our occupation becomes part of the problem... rather than the solution.

As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.