We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
twice I have lived forever in a smile
I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
The eyes of my eyes are opened.
When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to audition with her. My mom was worried I would fall flat on my face because I'd never opened my mouth to sing, so she sent me to vocal lessons. I did the audition and fell in love with the entire process of a show.
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.
And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.
There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.