The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.

WRITE. Take your time and play with the words until you feel you got them RIGHT.

Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones.

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.

One color alone means nothing. I acts as in a vacuum, with no other colors to relate to. It is only when colors relate to other colors that the fun begins.

My greatest weapon is mute prayer.

In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you’re wanted.

All desire but that of doing God's holy will has been extinguished in me.

The diplomatic relations start when the two sides get a bit closer to each other, but U.S and Iran, they are drifting apart.