Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

I edit my own stories to death. They eventually run and hide from me.

Okay, you won our shitty little argument. Pass the world.

I thought that young people had more problems than old people...Then I looked around and saw that everybody who looked young had young problems and that everybody who looked old had old problems.

If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others.

No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].

It's nice to be immortal. Film has given us immortality. Now my children are going to appreciate Tarzan.

That's why I love fighting, because I get to have a big battle every couple months to make up for the little battles I have to forfeit every day

Every parent is wondering, how do we keep our kids safe? We need a commander in chief who does what Ronald Reagan did with communism, which is he set out a global strategy to defeat Soviet communism.

Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.