It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Truth is neither in the scripture nor in the words of prophets. It is in your heart, feel it, discover it and expand with it.

All political power is a trust.

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world

We want our students to be the students we want to teach.

It's a kind of honour when I see how many people are imitating the style of how I make films.

It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them?

Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing something wonderful.

Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.

A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.

Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever