The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!

I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.

Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Always blame conditions, not men

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.

Ordinary life is fascinating when viewed with extraordinary perspective.

That's all any of us have in the end, isn't it? there is death ahead of all of us. And so we live.

I went to public school but kept to myself. When you live in a brothel, you don't want anyone coming to your home.

Casillas saying he wouldn't sign Messi for Madrid? Messi has a place in every team in the world.

Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.

Professor Eric Zolt of UCLA, said to me, "The VAT is such a good idea, mark my words, within five years, the U.S. will have a VAT." Then he said, "Of course, I've been saying that for 20 years."

To have lied is to have suffered.

So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way.