Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

We think too much and feel too little.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

If love weighs you downand casts a shadow on your lifethen it isn’t love.Love is light and makes you light.

You know those guys that go to the strip club at the daytime? If you're at a strip club, and the sun is out, you got some problems!

The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.

Let heaven fill your thoughts instead. Because when you do, everything on earth gets placed in its proper perspective.

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

I like men who are intelligent and sensitive.

I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

Throughout whatever I do, I always just say "Director" first. I am directing the storylines and I'm creating what it is.

(On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests.