If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

Do not imagine that the good you intend will balance the evil you perform

She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.

A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias. The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

Opinions need a willing ear.

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

I'm so thankful. God has been so good and generous.

I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.

Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes.