The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
The Australian accent just a very lovely accent and it doesn't have the pretention maybe of an English accent, but yet seems a little bit more exotic than an American.
You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.
It was nice that you guys have such a good sense of humor, because some people don't have the ability to laugh at something.
You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can't. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights. I mean come on, there's nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.
You know you're in love when you wear condoms while having sex with other women.
That's the thing about friendship, it's a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.
One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.
I love 'Dr Strangelove.
Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which advocated the violent overthrow of the U. S. government in violation of the Smith Act and which took orders directly from Moscow.
One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.