Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

God sometimes uses ugly vessels to carry beautiful things.

Faith is timeless possibility.

Dare to believeDare to liveDare to actDare to factDare to sailDare to failDare to giveDare to forgive

I think in Russia, there's a lot of storytelling and anecdotes.

Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.

Rather than making that a good project, I like to make the kinds of films that children can understand in five minutes what the film is about.

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

I love playing confused, broken characters.

Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.

Death is the mother of forms.