When we stop hoping, that which we fear will certainly come.

The past is not dead - it isn't even past

The most beautiful thing under the sun is being under the sun.

Between killing and dying there's a third way: live

It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing—it is this uncanny ability that the existence of the human race is based on.

Much later I realized that a person's attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign I know.

I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

There are secrets that ravage you, others that make you stronger.

I've known one thing for a long time: there's a role in the big machine even for someone who makes fun of it.

Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.

Most times, the way isn’t clear, but you want to start anyway. It is in starting with the first step that other steps become clearer.

Elegance is elimination.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.

I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one

There's no future. There's no past. I live each moment as my last.

I've lived a fast-paced life, but I had the best childhood. I didn't miss out on anything by having my daughter at a young age.

You can say the dirty words now, but there is no content - political satire is limited to small podiums and little soap boxes.