Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.

And I howled at that swarm and the crops and the sky, and the stars should have quit because there weren't no reason to be shining.

At the end of our lives we all ask, did i live? Did i love? Did i matter?

News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.

By the grace of God alone, I was able to still focus, when it was time for me to do my job, and I think I've done it pretty good, and I know I can buckle down even more.

Soup is never eaten as hot as it is cooked.

My film is very simple: An Eastern European story full of black humor about things everyone can feel and understand.

I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.

Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.

I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.