The harder life is for a man when he is young, the easier it will be in the future.

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.

We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go.

That's why there's a devil—to judge the priests.

Every dream is a butterfly flying in the garden we call life in search of flowers of success and happiness.

We must all get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something

There is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd.

I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.

I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

In public, Barack Obama's giving the simple version of his beliefs for the mass public. In private, he can discuss it at a really high level.

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

My four years at Berkley represent two of the happiest weeks of my life.

The moment you're loved, that's when you got your soul.