Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.

To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired

I spend my time backstage at the Lanvin shows, and when I come out at the end, all I see are people's eyes.

I love that India has declared dolphins non-human people with all laws that apply to human. I'm fascinated with the alien-ness of that.

Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations.

A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.

All art is autobiographical.

Ladies and Gentlemen...we are floating in Space!

I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating.

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.