Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

All progress is experimental.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

...our free will could convert a curse into a blessing or a blessing into a curse...To transform a crisis into an opportunity was true wisdom

I maintain that I never expect anything, therefore Im always pleasantly surprised.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities.

You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.

Producers don't really publicize movies.

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures

You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.

Like the sun that sets at the end of the day, so too will Ramadan come and go, leaving only it's mark on our heart's sky.