I dig and plough at your command, ' I replied, 'but you will not tell me how to shit.

I mean that repeated offences, even when they secure forgiveness, drive out love. And from that I came to say that one may compel obedience but never love.

Whatever makes a man a beast also renders him pitiable. But it behoves us to be wary of these besti*l men despite our compassion, for they frequently turn on their friends.

How did men make themselves loved, I wondered. I had passed all my life with men who were loved but I seemed never to have learnt the lesson.

God cuts out our path, makes a groove in the clay with His finger, and we poor blind ants slide down into it.

He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace...

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

It's an innocent kiss at first. Soft lips meeting

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

She who is silent everywhere finds peace.

There is nothing serious in Mortality