The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.

Whoever fears God stands above all manner of fear. He has become a stranger to all the fear of this world and placed it far from himself, and no manner of trembling comes near him.

I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Be truly present in the moment that you are in and don’t let life slip by unnoticed.

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

We all started under the sun and finished under the lights.

I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband.

Your life is your ship and you are the captain. Choose your course, take the wheel firmly and get on your way.

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.