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

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

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

A person preaches well that lives well.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Freedom lies in being bold.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.