You can never have for yourself someone who isn't on good terms with himself.

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.

Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.

Human beings can't bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves.

The Self is the measure of everything.

...the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards.

Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more than chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee.

I don't want to do action that doesn't mean anything. Everything I do I want to have character development and three-dimensional characters, fallible humans, and this is definitely one of them.

The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.

If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.

The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.