To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one thing that solaces and delights.

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

People shouldn't read into venue locations someone's heart.

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

To shift the direction of our planet, we must now be willing to experiment with the theory that within the speed and stress, we are good.

Love said, "Wake still and think of me," Sleep, "Close your eyes till break of day," But Dreams came by and smilingly Gave both to Love and Sleep their way.

When you start hiding things away, that’s when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Women are not a garment you wear and undress however you like. They are honored and have their rights.