I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

There is another world, but it is in this one.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

You know what I think? I think that the world never got the time to hate me. It just wanted to hate me long before it met me.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

I wish I could tell people what I'm directing next, but I can't.

Russians always need a little sh*t in our lives. If everything is good and we seem completely happy, then we become suspicious of that.

The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.

Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

I think everything has some politics to it. It's just whether or not it admits to it. Politics is weird. I don't even know what that means any more.

A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.

Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.