I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.