The night is there, we're trying to ignore the night, the night was always there as children.

Animals are always goddesses and gods, like the god Anubis. He's the one who's accompanying the souls to the next life, and he's the one who decides if they will be able to cross or not.

Animals are also the ones that are guarding the graves, and they are the ones who communicate between the dead and the alive.

I always start with reality, in anything I do, everything I do, I always start from something real.

I go and film 50 people in Israel, 50 people in Russia, and 50 people in Romania, in Paris, because I really like to get some particles of something real.

We see everything, we see what's going on in Syria, we see what's going on with the refugees. What can you do about it? And we have to do something.

You can feel that something terrible is going on in another place in the world, and it's the other, it's not you. It's always there, it's them. But this them is also you.

I think that the world is in a very serious decline - very, very serious.

We are getting used to levels of violence, we are getting used to seeing these horrific things going on all the time. I think it's tough. It's rough.

That's what animals do all of the time; they watch out, they watch out, and I saw, "This is us now." Us, the world, we are watching out.

I usually go to bed early to read. I read and I always say that I'm not a "bohemian artist;" I need to read for one or two hours in the evening, and the quiet, so I don't hang out a lot.

Why did this disease choose me? I cannot carry it, if its just for the word: Fate.

Only tears can understand the joy of sorrow.

As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

I have sought you out to cure me.' 'To cure you of what?' 'Of this cursed affliction.' 'I cannot cure stupidity.' Scapegrace frowned.

In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.

The boundaries of design are the same as the problem of perception.

It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity.

Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs