Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

We never remember days, only moments.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

I think Temple is wrong. I don't think I'd dig that kind of art party at all.

Toppling sounds like it jumped from a tall building and landed gracefully on is g.

That's a horrible plan." "Yes, but I have chosen to ignore that.

You can't kill ideas. But you can sure shoot the people who hold them

If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.

I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.

The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the world will, every one of them, be traced back to science.

Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions.

I strive to make the next painting better than the last one. That's why the most exciting thing to me is the next one.

I'm a shy person, so I get really nervous going into interviews.