Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms.

Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.

Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.

Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons.

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

Everyone is born with a different mind and the same heart.

Truth is what reconciles thought and experience.

The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.

A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.

If life was a piano light and darkness would be the keys. And shadows would be the melody that creates the harmony.

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long human nature is incapable of supporting it.

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

Even when Warren [Beatty] cast me, it had been two years between films at that point.

We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives.

Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.

In every position that I've been in, there have been naysayers who don't believe I'm qualified or who don't believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong.

I don't have much of an organization at all. I listen to my heart.