Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.