If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

I want to be a ripple in the infinite ocean of love.

All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.

I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.

It's lovely to get one successful show - the chances of finding a second one are not so hot.

Unlike some older brothers, I never set him on fire, or cut off an arm or leg, or drowned him in the tub.

Through itself the soul arrives at all harmony that is perceptible in otherness-just as through what is internal the soul arrives at what is external.

Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.

Property belongs to man and not man to property.