It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most.

Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.

Even coal shimmers in the light

If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself

There is no treasure like the human heart.

It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.

What is courage without risk... It wouldn’t really be courage, would it?

What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?

Hate engenders loneliness and despair

Books are like bound dreams waiting to be released

No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.

The light within the darkness- you've lost sight of it.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.

It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.

A bloody good thing, but too late.

Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything.

It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made.

The question of the right to privacy must be one of the defining issues of our time.