You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you?

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

I avoid roles that might send me down a road where I might end up being typecast.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing

I was a baby when I came into the world--otherwise I might have been smart enough to become a different person.

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee

Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.

The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature.

My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.

This limited theatrical release was a nice little bonus that I never expected.

All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.