It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.

It is impossible to reign innocently.

The vessel of Revolution can arrive at port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood.

A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses.

If all people are free, all are equal. If they are equal, they are just.

One does not make revolutions by halves.

Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.

I do not belong to any faction, I will fight them all.

Dare! - this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.

The mother-in-law came round last week. It was absolutely pouring down. So I opened the door and I saw her there and I said, 'Mother, don't just stand there in the rain. Go home.'

I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?

Load up your mind with pictures capturing your preferred tomorrow. Put the remembrances of the past in a place where they won't block your view.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

One of the things that struck me as unique about Hollywood is that I never had bad meetings. There were all enthusiastic, but meaninglessly enthusiastic.

There is nowhere to go. What you are looking for is right here. Open the fist clenched in wanting and see what you already hold in your hand

A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.