It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

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

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

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

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

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

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

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

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.