There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

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

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

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

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.