Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so badly and bandits so well. Your movies and radio programs are full of murder.

I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.

The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

Me as a woman liking myself, is an act of social defiance!

You don't have to understand me I am not a word in a dictionary just accept me the way I am.

Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American story.

I feel that I have a good enough social radar to tell good people from bad people.

Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

Peace beings with me. The more peaceful I am inside, the more peace I have to share with others.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

The Pope is a man. The Pope needs the input of women, too. And the Pope, too, has a heart that can have a healthy, holy friendship with a woman.