“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.”

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

I am done with this creed of corruption.

To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.

Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.

She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.

Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

My approach to acting now is so different — I’m fearless because I have nothing to lose. Before [children] my identity was wrapped up in every decision — now, I don’t care.

The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.

Five and forty steps the sky will burn. Fire approaching the large new city. Instantly a great thin flame will leap, when someone will want to test the Normans.

War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Every day is a routine: you wake up, go to work or school, get tired, watch TV shows or read books, and then go to bed – and so on in a circle. Did you recognize yourself? It’s a shame because this is the wrong approach.

Whatever you do in life, approach it with creativity.

The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.