“It is all one to me where I begin; for I shall come back again there.”

Give me the power to produce fever and I’ll cure all disease.

It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.

To be and to have meaning are the same.

Tis necessary for thee to learn all things, both the abiding essence of persuasive truth, and men’s opinions in which rests no true belief.

Let reason alone decide.

Or how could it come into being ? If it came into being, it is not; nor is it if it is going to be in the future.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Meet it is that thou shouldst learn all things, as well the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, as the opinions of mortals in which is no true belief at all.

Now that all things have been named light and night, and the names which belong to the power of each have been assigned to these things and to those, everything is full at once of light and dark night, both equal, since neither has ought to do with the other.

Being alone is and nothing is altogether not.

We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging and complete. It was not or nor shall be different since it is now, all at once, one and continuous.

Thou canst not recognize not-being (for this is impossible), nor couldst thou speak of it, for thought and being are same.

Mortals have made up their minds to name two forms, one of which they should not name, and that is where they go astray from the truth.

It is the same thing that can be thought and for the sake of which thought exists.

Wherefore all these things are but the names which mortals have given, believing them to be true.

When I began acting, my biggest fear was whether the audience will appreciate the kind of films I do.

Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.

But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.

The title is the first thing that I have. Then when I have that title, I have to make sure that the title is like, so I have to make sure I can tell a whole story from that one title and like make sure that it, from beginning to end it makes sense.

Every boss started as a worker.

We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.