I was an incurable romantic then, same as I am now. I was always pining away after somebody
Fear doesn't prevent death, but it certainly prevents life.
The early bird gets the worm, the rest starve.
If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work. When you stop being like other people, they stop liking you. That's just how it goes. There's no escaping it. And it's okay. What you need to understand about that disapproval is that it's a sign you're doing something right.
What controls your attention, controls your life
Lady Luck shines on all, but rather than having your umbrella overhead, you've got to have your face to the sky. When it comes down to it, it's all you, baby. There's no other way around it.
Almost every great achievement began with someone finally getting ticked off, saying, 'Enough!' and standing up to fight.
That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped.
I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the. . . government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.
I have a video store next to my apartment in Paris, and they still have most of their videos on VHS. A lot of people think Be Kind Rewind is set in the past because they just wipe this reality out of their head, but it is true that there are a lot of movies that don't exist on DVD. But I'm not like a big movie buff.