Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.

'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.

I just want to keep working. I guess I gravitate towards stories that I like and directors that I want to work with, and I hope that it works out.

When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.

In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons.

I'd love to be abducted. I'd sit on my deck at home waiting all night long to be abducted. But that's never happened that I know of.

Now that I have and I'm not a have-not, I've learned how important it is to maintain humility.

By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false or absurd, to dismiss the man so that his message could also be dismissed.

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.