Man cannot choose his duties.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at whats in front of you.

To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.

What is well done is done soon enough.

The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.

Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.

Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film.

Never water down or minimise the mighty Gospel of God by considering that people may be misled by certain statements. Present the Gospel in all its fullness and God will guard His own truth.

A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.