You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

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

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

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

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

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.

Give up trying to make me give up