The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it's better not to tell the truth.

Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.

Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

No man is a man until he has been a soldier.

Love delayed is lust augmented.

That is morality, I make myself imagine that it is personal.

Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is. Do you understand?

Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it.

The dead can read tears.

Fear kills dreams more than failure

Procrastination and fear are close cousins.

Thoughts are like things carried by a river. Capture the best while you can, after they have gone, you have to run after them and if per chance you find them, they are distorted

Hospitals are a little like the beach. The next wave comes in, and the footprints of your pain and suffering, your delivery and recovery, are obliterated.

We could easily have evolved eyelids thick enough to keep out the light, but we still need to see the shadows fall across them. We're not yet safe.

Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

We know nothing. And just because you know something to be true at this moment in your life or you feel that it is true, you can never be sure of yourself.

Every time I was cast in a role, the director put a gun in my hand, so I figured I’d better learn how to use one. Then I found out I really liked it.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.