A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

Seriously, who curses you with their dying breath and says, I hope your eye twitches!

There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons.

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!

One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.

Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?

Be careful of the ones that always wanna get you high, cause when the time comes, that one'll let you die.

Because you aren't afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)

A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

People are not hungry because we dont produce enough. People are hungry for political reasons.