If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

If you really want to be happy, don't just go for the money. Go for the relationship that lasts. Go for things of greater value.

To be happy is to be a little bit sad for it is the negative that balances the positive. What is the use of being happy if there is no sadness?

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.

We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

Over a period of years he collected thousands of discples. Many became his students. Many didn't become his students but whenever he was in town they would go and see him.

Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.

After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my life.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true.