Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

The past is a lake in which you add every day a glass with your attitudes. How crystal clear is water?

Teaching is a gift you give not only to others, but also to yourself. You give and you receive, you teach and you learn.

When the camera starts to roll, there is something of death about it.

in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.

One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

Tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.