Do not give a damn what "they" have to say (and you will know who they are) for you are either very right or very wrong, but at least you are very something.

Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.

Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist.

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.

Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm only a doorman awaiting the arrival of her royal majesty.

I gather the last remnants of the evening’s breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened

When you make a promise, you’re not giving your word in erasable pencil, you’re inscribing your commitment in indelible ink.

Fighting is never good. But sometimes necessary.

Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.

I get cast a lot of times in movies with nice people, for some reason, because I have a nice face or something. I mean, it's lucky I'm nice. Usually nice people in movies can be really boring.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

I think exactly the same qualities as men [women role model needs], exactly the same, which is kindness, courage and intelligence.

We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.