If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.

We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those who thought they knew us best.

Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram.

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.

Timidity is the silent acceptance of bondage

Falling in love is a beautiful wonder.

The proliferation of creative power can transform the world for all of its inhabitants.

An honest man is always a child.

Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.

Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!

Come through for others and they will come through for you.

One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.

Fitzcarraldo is that metonymic character that's unwilling to give up on his dreams. Meeting Walter was the point in which all of these dreams coalesced into a very real person with a very real story.

We hold on STEVE's still smiling face as MICHAEL passes by. STEVE's eyes follow MICHAEL out of the room and then the smile disappears. It is replaced by a look of hunger and desolation.