Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

A kiss is a lovely trick to stop speech.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

Give me an hour and I'll make a lifetime out of it.

I regret the things I didn't do, not what I did.

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up.

A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.

The sort of movies I make are not ones that can easily be sold upfront, so I have to make them and prove their mettle before I can sell them.

With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.

Directing a movie is the greatest job in the world. I could not be more envious of the guys who get to do it all the time.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

It was a dark and stormy night.

It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.