four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

Do not allow me to forget you

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

I could not flourish in the Hollywood system because the first thing spoken about is "What genre is it?" and "Who's it for?" It's a very strange question to me; it's for human beings.

Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man's life.

I intend to defeat ISIS, to do so in a coalition with majority Muslim nations.

Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing that's as much as a listener can take.

There's no destination. The journey is all that there is, and it can be very, very joyful.