I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

Life is too short to be lived badly.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

All big changes of the world come from words.

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

Decisions shape destiny. Be bold to make them. The worst form of decision is INDECISION

Until now, I've never been able to see while I fly, and I feel a dizzying lightness as I look out at the land bel

Immediate gratification is a dream killer.

You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.

I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.

I've dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.

He who fears not death fears not a threat.