Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

There is the freedom you have when you are alone and there is the freedom that you have next to someone else. Blessed are those in which those two freedoms coincide.

If I might share my opinion, this world is hell, and our task is to create our own heaven.

Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

Take your time. Some of these fad diets and quick fixes, they might be quick, but you're going to crash and burn.

Don't give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.

Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.

It's not just getting a goal that matters, but the quality of life you experience along the way.

If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director.