All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Time. There is much time left and lots of life seasons. There is much to see, to do, and to be.

If you can dedicate yourself to asking questions to reveal your potential, you will discover your potentials and start to fulfil your mission

Mother Florence had once told her that jealousy was the worst of all faults because it prevented a person from being who they were born to be.

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.

Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die?