Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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.

Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.(Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)

Evil angels make the best boyfriends.

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

I feel that nothing important ever happens that is not revealed to me beforehand.

You never know why something works or doesn't.

If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.

Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

Ive seen Fried Green Tomatoes too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.

The video of 'Paranoid Android' has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs.