It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

Real life seems to have no plots.

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

Gain great values by converting your time

Allison was at full strength when it came to one thing:attitude.

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

May you hear the voice of wisdom. Listening, may you act with trust.

By nature I am not tough, believe it or not.

Well, TV does a better job. In film, the justification has been that movies focused on stories or featuring people of color don't make money.

At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.

That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.

All of us have not been to a natural prison, but everybody in here has had a spiritual prison.

I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.