I love music more than language: it's the best, it's universal.

I was looking for an opportunity to make my first feature, so I asked myself: "What do you want to do? Is there something you can give to the world?"

I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.

When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.

You live with someone until they accept that you are what you are, that you're not going to change and they love that about you - and then they decide to marry you, I guess.

You don't actually have to understand the song to be emotionally moved and uplifted, whereas with language it becomes quirky and analytical.

Anyone can write a holy book, if he feels god is calling him to do so

I don't care a hang for any cat that hasn't stripes.

There had been nothing worse than waiting for it to come

We are in truth more than a half of what we are by imitation.

All thought is a feat of association having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.

First we had the land and they had the Bibles, now we have the Bibles and they have the land

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.