If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

The past is obdurate.

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a coincidence is just a coincidence.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music.

Also, I'm angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

Seek knowledge to amaze yourself endlessly.

There are some sufferings that we seem as a creature to forget, or we would never survive as a creature among all the other creatures.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.

One of the great attractions of patriotism

I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

If you don't know who your customer is, you don't know what quality is.

I will only make pictures that I won't be ashamed to have my children see.