Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

You were born with love and hope. Why do you feel that you have no power to win in life?

A challenging life isn't impossible to overcome, but it does mean that you might have to work a little harder to overcome it.

If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.

I was getting to perform with an actor with whom I had never interacted before

If you don't fail, you're not even trying.

Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let a person go from your life.

Something like small English films were in vogue you had something like The Crying Game and everyone piled into London and wanted to make small English movies.

West Germany's Briegel hasn't been able to get past anyone yet - that's his trademark.

What touches our hearts and impresses us deeper is sacrifice and humility, when we see someone accept the higher principle of cooperation, putting aside his/her own achievements.

Education has to endow you with an eagerness to surrender.