When reason fails, the devil helps!

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

The journey of greatness begins in the mind

You must always be proactive

I saw for the first time that I could stop giving people the power to make me feel disrespected. In my anger I began to see the absurdity of allowing this boy to shame me.

Pretty girls kissed me on victory day, their lips soft red petals brushing my face.

I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.

Doing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.

If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work.

Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

It's best if I stay out of future plans and let time go on.