There is nothing more disgraceful than a vain man."

"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.

I do not think I was made to help people."

"And what were you made to do?"

"To wander.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see each other in life."

[As quoted in Elia Kazan's autobiography, A Life (1988)]