Impromptu thoughts are mental wild-flowers.

Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.

Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.

I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing.

Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born!

Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.

. . . everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself.

Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I'm afraid of them.

[On the legend that after being beheaded St. Denis walked six miles with his head in his hands:] It is only the first step that is difficult.

I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui.

God is not more incomprehensible than you; but if he is not more just, it is hardly worth while beIieving in him.

What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

'Tis the motive exalts the action 'Tis the doing and not the deed.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

It's impossible to compare two bands. It would be like comparing two lovers.

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.

When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference.

It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.

I am very healthy. Career wise, even old men get to be in movies. So as long as I am healthy, I will continue to make movies.

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.