Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

It’s not possible to stop love.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

Love is only one of many passions.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

You don’t come into cooking to get rich.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

We never love a person, but only qualities.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.