Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.

If you want to reach people nobody is reaching, you've got to do things nobody is doing

So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere.

The idea of romanticising the world goes back to the idea of creating a harmonious whole where the individual will feel at one with himself, others and nature.

Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

All our attachments are outward oriented and hence this illusion.

How to succeed in business without really trying (title of book)

One of the proudest things for me with this film [The Fourth Phase] is that year after year we put ourselves right out there making it and no one got seriously injured.