I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making us examine ourselves.
Passion is Love's blind guide, but the only one he hath.
The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love.
Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.
In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.
If Pity come as Pity, bid her stay; But if in guise of Love, chase her away.
Love is God's essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power.
The people who are successful are those who are grateful for everything they have. Giving thanks for what we have always opens the door for more to come, and ungratefulness always closes the door.
It was the seventh of November, 1918. The war was finally over. Maybe it would be declared a holiday and named War's End Day or something equally hopeful and wrong. Wars would break out again. Violence was part of human nature as much as love and generosity.
I'm still rough around the edges. I grew up with not a lot of money, and just played sports my whole life. So you develop the sports-mouth with all of your friends.
Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.