Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.

I've always enjoyed family movies anyway. And I grew up loving actors who could hop around and play in something very family friendly, big, playful - and then go and do drama and comedy as well.

One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.

Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.

Microsoft shoots for the moon. Sony shoots for the sun.

Don't allow your emotions to get in the way of clearheaded decisions about what's best for you.

Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.

You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.

I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited about at the time.

People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.