...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go.

That's why there's a devil—to judge the priests.

The harder life is for a man when he is young, the easier it will be in the future.

I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.

The poor you will always have with you, ' Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And you never get that with TV. Even with a home system, it's never the same.

Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite.

Don't make your kids look hot and dirty and sexy when they're 5-years old! It's really not the place or the time. You're about 11 years early.

A person who loves and kisses a tree is a normal person; a person who hates and cuts a tree is an abnormal person.

I probably get it trimmed once every two months or so. I've just been going to the salon in the city, and they'll clean it up a bit.