Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective.

space and silence are necessary because it is only when the mind is alone, uninfluenced, untrained, not held by infinite varieties of experience, that it can come upon something totally new.

I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's.

None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.

It's not natural for people in the opposition to leave. It's always a personal catastrophe.

Everything changes when you make a decision to be one of the courageous ones, someone who chooses to make a life, rather than a living.

I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age.

There were a large number of Jews who held more favorable positions than they should have, according to their percentage of the population. Germans should have held those positions.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven.