Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio. des fieri sentio et excrucior.I hate and I love. You may ask, why I do this. I do not know. But I sense that I do and it pains me.

Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.

I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

But you shall not escape my iambics.

Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her.

Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.

Consider anything, only don’t cry!

I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.

Be brave. Cowards always get hurt. Brave men generally come out unharmed.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

Im always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.

God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.

If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.