Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

A statue stands in a shaded placeAn angel girl with an upturned faceA name is written on a polished rockA broken heart that the world forgot

Falling in love is one of most beautiful emotions one can feel. You haven’t lived your life, if you haven’t loved.

The HOLY of Holiness!

Don't always carry your Toy dog. Small dogs have four on the floor and they can use them.

Without habitual self-examination, you can be hypocritical, but not see it.

After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.

We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.

I handle my emotional pain with music and old movies, preferably Westerns.

The angels can be thought of as our prayer partners.