Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

If you want to succeed, limit yourself.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

From the point in life when a man/woman is responsible for his/her choices, he/she starts to live a story brought to life by the dreams that have been consciously or subconsciously conceived.

When we are young we fear we are not alone in the dark, When we grow up we fear we are

When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience.

More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.

You really have to begin by figuring out what kind of person you are. The tip is to really take a look at yourself.

I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.

Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key . . .

I boxed 15 years in a club.