The first requisite for immortality is death.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

The exit is usually where the entrance was.

Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?

A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.

By indignities men come to dignities.

The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like himself.

Justice is what love looks like in public.

Everyone on the set has a mobile phone, and I found by pushing a few buttons, they could be programmed into different languages. I fixed Robbie's Coltrane to speak in Turkish.

The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.

We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools.

Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer to produce two books a year on the dot - but it's also a very toxic place to work.

The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.

Any resistance is not only normal but necessary-it is part of the creative process.