“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.”

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Conscience is God present in man.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.

In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.

We are all children searching for love.

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don’t crush them with some clever remark straight away.

I actually get a lot of messages with people saying, ‘What’s a Marvin Gaye?’ and, I mean… Oh, wow. I must be getting old, because someone who was born in 2004 just asked me what a Marvin Gaye was.

Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything – but I’m ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o’clock at night.