As pessoas hoje conhecem o preço de tudo e o valor de nada.

A educação é uma coisa admirável, mas é bom recordar que nada do que vale a pena saber pode ser ensinado.

A insatisfação é o primeiro passo para o progresso de um homem ou de uma nação.

A arte começa onde a imitação acaba.

A diferença entre a literatura e o jornalismo é que o jornalismo é ilegível e a literatura não é lida.

A arte é a forma mais intensa de individualismo que o mundo já conheceu.

A essência do pensamento, tal como a essência da vida, é o crescimento.

A caridade cria uma multidão de pecados.

A experiência é o nome que damos aos nossos erros.

A infância não é mais do que um longo percurso de inocente escuta às portas para se ouvir o que se devia ignorar.

A mais alta e mais baixa forma de crítica é de género autobiográfico.

Aquilo a que chamamos de falta de sinceridade é muito simplesmente o método pelo qual multiplicamos as nossas personalidades.

A sociedade frequentemente perdoa o criminoso, ela nunca perdoa o sonhador.

A moralidade é apenas a atitude que adoptamos para com as pessoas de que pessoalmente não gostamos.

As religiões morrem quando se prova que são verdadeiras. A ciência é uma sequência de religiões mortas.

A obra de arte deve dominar o espectador. O espectador não deve dominar a obra de arte.

Aqueles que não fazem nada estão sempre dispostos a criticar os que fazem algo.

As nossas caras são verdadeiras máscaras que nos foram dadas para ocultarem os pensamentos.

A moda é o que a gente traz, o que está fora de moda é o que trazem os outros.

A morte é a única coisa que me terrifica. Detesto-a. Hoje em dia pode-se sobreviver a tudo excepto isso.

What is past is past there is a future left to all men who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

I do want to be a representative of the African community, and I want to hold myself and dress myself in a way that reflects that. I want black kids to see me and think, 'Okay, he's carrying himself as a black man, and that's how a black man should carry himself.'

We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy.

For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.

San Suu's story will always involve politics, but the essence is the love story.

Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'

I am here and here is nowhere in particular.

I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.

I guess I've never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they're great, don't get me wrong. Excellent, excellent musicians; great band; awesome harmony; great song writers; I just don't know anything besides, I guess, the popular songs on the radio.

Some eco groups suggest that as many as 73 million sharks are killed globally every year. Hammerheads, blue sharks, mako sharks - they're disappearing, and they ain't coming back.

They say that Grandma Moses had several canvases going at the same time. Maybe it was a way for her to catch up with the time she missed while raising children and tending the farm. Like Grandma, I tend to have more than one poem or fiction going at a time. For me, it's just the way I think.

Every now and then I have to teach directing. The thing about the theatre is that the most important thing you can do as a director is to make sure that everybody is in the same world - you have to create the world and make sure everyone buys into it.

I love becoming a character outside of who I am. Even when I was a little girl, I loved make believe, so I like it.

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short term reward loop acts over hours to years and the long term reproductive success loop over generations.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I love myself exactly as I am.

I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

Death is never polite, even when we expect it.

The rose of the old year withers away as the new bud begins to bloom.

If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.