The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

While there is tea, there is hope.")

Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

I just think people, when they get elected, they ought to serve. They ought to do their jobs.

I drink to forget I drink.

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.

fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.