The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

On athleticism, God knows no favor. It seems rather he is in the business of teaching winners how to lose and losers how to win.

There is the right way and a million other ways. Eliminating the other options prevents limiting your results.

Ignorance of mortality is a comfort.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

I'm drawn to bad romances.

My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.

Paul had an almost missionary companion. His name was Demas. Paul wrote his entire history in nine words. He says: Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world.

My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor; my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor

Nothing will destroy creativity thought faster than judging the value of the idea on the spot.