There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.

He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.

A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.

Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window.

We kill time; time buries us.

In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.

There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference.

Tomorrow's sun is on it's way - a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.

Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.

It's the occasion that makes the revolution.

Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.

The important thing is not to survive, but to live.

[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

A picture can say a thousand words, but a sentence can paint a thousand pictures...

Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.

Americans, [John Adams] wrote in 1780, believed that their "revolution is as much for the benefit of the generality of Mankind in Europe, as for their own."

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

If you're famous enough, the rules don't apply.

Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.