It was chilling to realize that the sentimental qualities most valued between people, like loyalty, constancy, and affection, are the ones most likely to impede change.

Nobody is free… Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons.

I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.

It was going to be the journey of a lifetime, a journey that millions dream of and never make, and I wanted to do justice to all those dreams.

To all the defiant stoics, laughing and fighting lonesome battles in the face of adversity.

I wonder if He anticipates the day when He can make us understand what was occurring in our time of trial. I wonder if He broods over our sorrows.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.

When you're making a movie, you feel like a very small part of something that you really don't have much influence upon. You roll in, you do your thing, and then you're gone.

Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.

The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.