How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Any man's a fool who lets himself be a wage-earning slave, today.

Begin doing what you want to do now.

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.

We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football

Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.

Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.

There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph.

the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.

I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been on the field.