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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination... And don't bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: "It's not where you take things from—it's where you take them to."

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.