“Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had”

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.

When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.

A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.

Every opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome.

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.

I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.

I don’t have to hear that criticism, that idotic criticism anymore.

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.