Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

I don't like hypocrisy-even in international relations.

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.

In Rome the statues, in Paris the paintings, and in Prague the buildings suggest that pleasure can be an education.

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

The Iranian government as a whole has no relationship with my films. They're not particularly interested, perhaps this kind of cinema is not very interesting to them.

When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.

Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.

But that hair? That is comedy entrapment. People are not attacking your hair, they are defending themselves from something that appears like it's about to attack them.

On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.