Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.

I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.

If this were an indie movie, we'd start talking about the constellations, " Solomon said, looking up at the stars.

A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.

I am very proud of my role in 'Singularity.' It pushed me into the territory of period romance. It was a very emotional and challenging role.

Human beings all mimic each other.

If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

Nietzsche was so intelligent and advanced. And that's how I am. I'm the black, basketball-playing Nietzsche.

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.

When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size.