I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.

Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

But you shall not escape my iambics.

Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her.

Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]

Life is 10 percent what you make itand 90 percent how you take it.

To enjoy the beauty of the world, don’t try to fit in. Try to fly out of your perceived boundaries.

A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.

My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell.

I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.

I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.