An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

It is human nature to strive.

I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free. I am always suspicious of ideology. Instead, I respect men with ideas.

Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

I don't write [screenplay character] biographies beforehand. I usually go in knowing some sequences: this is where I want to start, this is where I want to end.

The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It's almost like there needs to be two genres, modern country and... country?

When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other?

Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.

Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.

He didn't love me because I'm valuable. Because He loved me, I became valuable.