Why do you wear a mask and hood?" I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Nobody knows anything.

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

You’re with you 24/7

I fail enough and I beat myself up enough. I don't need anybody else to do it for me.

There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.

We all just realized that I am terminally ill and I'm dying and I would just prefer to die with less pain and less suffering.

How in the world could you ever imagine a life of faith that does not require risk? Faith and risk are inseparable.

I'm working, but there is so much still to be done! And it frightens me to think of my weight of years. But on we go, without fear or hesitation!

Each new book is a tremendous challenge.

The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I."

When you are passionate about life, it keeps you young. Sometimes I wake up at 4:00 am just to see how my roses look.