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

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

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

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...