A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.

I think people in general think more about their insecurities.

Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem to matter. I just surrendered the whole thing to God.

What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.

The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.

There are only so many hilarious actors so when they cross-pollinate, people assume it's always the same actors and directors.

I tell you what, I was so shocked because I didn't think the ball had enough to get out. It's an absolutely incredible feeling. I can honestly say I did it.

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.

It's not good to argue with your woman about something, because women feel strong about it, they slap you in your face, you still go back to them.