A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.

Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.

Good music always defeats bad luck

But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

I want to forget myself in you..." #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion

I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.

Your reputation is what you're perceived to be, Your character is what you really are

The whole tradition of cinema is dominated, really, by films about good guys versus bad guys, good versus evil. But we have very few films about the nature of evil itself.

Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.