I do not eat meat, I do not smoke, and I do not drink, and therefore, I do not feel the cold.

The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did Reno 911! for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing, and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the Star Trek thing.

I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.