It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

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

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.