It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think – the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late.

I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.

They march into the future to the rhythm of the past.

You have no future when the past rules you.

I think that everyone has something that they will kill for.

There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.

It’s not until you’re older that you realise how important the things that happened to you when you were a kid are. Even things you only half remember.

Once they have dedicated themselves to a cause, women will fight to the end for it.

If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people’s thinking.

Everything I learn to say or do because I love.

It'd be good for the world if [Donald Trump] won.

There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the normal human condition.

... the best missile defense system of all would be a just and lasting peace.

Oh! you shall see how well I know how to love! I can only love; I know only how to love! With moderate faculties, we can yet do much when we center them on a single object.

Races don't fall in love, genders don't fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.

The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.

I have literally no idea what it's like to shoot a 2D movie. I'd only shot things that were 7 minutes long with a video camera in my apartment with friends.

The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.