I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Being happy is knowing how to be content with little

Live your life without attracting attention.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.

A relax soul is a sacred-being.

Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.

Coming to terms with my feelings of worthlessness isn't always a bad time, but it's rarely a good one.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.

Change your direction and you will change your destiny

We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.

In the glass burrow beneath their feet, the flames began to rise. First the flames, and then the screams

As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.