Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

The stationary condition is the beginning of the end

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

You can only really yell at the players you trust.

The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.

Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and it'll kill you.

No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world.