We fail even if we do our best, because our best is someone else’s good.

Money cannot eradicate poverty, only education can.

Only a coward carries a gun, a brave person never needs a gun.

Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world’s pain on their shoulders. They are called writers.

I almost moved mountains, touched rivers, impressed deserts and motivated skies, but I never made it to your heart.

If you see yourself as a man, no one will dare to see you as a kid.

Somewhere in this small world, you can find a place where everyone appreciates you more than you think you deserve.

For many people around the world ethnicity is not a language, it is a religion.

There is no vicious inhumanity than keeping children hungry.

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one.

The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.

Kindness is the basic ingredient for the recipe of happiness.

Don't take crucial decisions when you are depressed or filled with anger, because then the decision is not made by you.

The books. Are unhappy.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

I'm a huge Sissy Spacek fan.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.

I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.