To understand everything is to hate nothing.

There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

Unfinished promises are the one thing we’ll always have to live with.

Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.

Create and maintain a beautiful environment and surroundings in which to live.

All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it.

Fashion is not beautiful, neither is it ugly. Why should it be either? Fashion is fashion.

I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The Last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back then.

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.

I am not in the giving vein today.