"Every error is truth abused."

“Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.”

“My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Different parents have different standards for their children.”

Source : "Interview with Penelope Spheeris" by Pablo Kjolseth, www.moviehabit.com. January 31, 2001.

“The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness.”

“Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of the ego directly. The moment this happens your identity has shifted from ego to awareness. This means the ego is shrinking and awareness is growing.”

“A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.”

“In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.”

Source : Bernadette Roberts (1985). “The Path to No-Self: Life at the Center”, p.34, SUNY Press

“Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.”

Source : "Jonathan Demme On Future Projects ‘Old Fires,’ ‘Zeitoun’ And ‘This House We Live In’" by Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. December 29, 2012.