El arte de vivir

“Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.”

“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”

“We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?”

“Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.”

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

“Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.”

“Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.”

“So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.”

“And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.”

“If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.”

“The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.”

“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”

“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”

“My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.”

“I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.”

“Dreams can still come true you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.”

“Chemical engineers learned long ago that a process that works in the laboratory cannot be implemented in a factory in only one step.”

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”

“You are, and always have been, my dream.”

“When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.”

“I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.”

“All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.”

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

“He alone is great and happy who fills his own station of independence, and has neither to command nor to obey.”

“Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.”

“When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.”

“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”

“He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.”

“Never let your dreams go away.”

“Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation.”