Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

Do not allow me to forget you

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.

When hearts speak, they touch each other and transform the deepest sorrow.

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

I had this thing about hanging out in dark theaters. My family thought I grew out of a rock.

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

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

Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.

Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races.