The soul is healed by being with children.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.

If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band.

A girl can't sing rock & roll too well. It's basically too savage.

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era.

I've got a serious-looking head.

Forever made that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender.

The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, "my name is Humphrey" somebody would punch you out, because that's a stupid name to have.

An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply