Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.

Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.

Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.

A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.

Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.

Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.

It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.

Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.

Be sure that whatever you are is you.

Those who have teachable spirit get wiser and wiser daily.

What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.

I knew when I was in high school that I wanted a job where they'd applaud if I showed up.

We all have that capacity, to be two things. And after all I was named for both the devil and the angel. Demonio y angel. Dem-y-an.

I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of hate.

Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution

There's plenty of room for all sorts of movies and all sorts of comedies, so I never saw that as a competitive thing. I think there's room in the marketplace for everything.