History is not fable agreed upon, but truth disagreed upon.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows.

Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.

As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.

For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

Men are willing to admit that they are sinners, but not that they are sinning.

The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay.

Love is not like the echo, which returneth only what is given; but, rather, like the pump, which returneth by the pail what it received by the pint.

A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over.

You stand the risk of bankruptcy, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.

My way of making people like me was to make 'em laugh.

I wanted to turn pro at like 12 years old when I was riding for Bones Brigade.

Die before the one whom you love; to live after he dies is to live a worthless life in this world.

We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

I enjoy going back to work now because cinema is going through an exciting period because young people are now going back to the movie theaters. But things are different though.

None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together; but we have to create our own history - history of United Yugoslavia, also in the future.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

I never actually smoked with any of the presidents.