No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Once you label me you negate me.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

All you need to build a house, Is blood and bricks and plaster.

Thank heaven I have given up smoking again! . . . God! I feel fit. A different man. Irritable moody depressed rude perhaps . . . but the lungs are fine.

As I get more and more involved in the child's world with Rocco his son I'm getting interested in making a film for children.

There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

The first is last, and the last is first.

This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration ... I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.

I breastfed Sophie for 14 months and Nicolas for 11 months.

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.