Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.

There are two reasons why we don't trust people, First, we don't know them. Second, we know them.

There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart.

It was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have borne it.Psalms, 55:12

Praise little, dispraise less.

This is our festival and on this day we are all Indians. We celebrate the festival by maintaining the spirit of brotherhood.

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

If you're not a big club, you choose one competition and you fight in that competition and forget the others. Big clubs - we cannot do this

Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency?

I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here.