The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb.

A man without words is a man without thought.

All great and precious things are lonely.

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

Your universe grows when you are learning.

When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open.

Wisdom of the Ages: "Valentine's Day" Because she never forgets, especially if you do.

Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

I make every movie and every scene like it could be my last. That's the only way I know how to make cinema that stands on its feet. I have to treat it like that. It has to be life and death stakes.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.