Not to anticipate is already to moan.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

Human nature defeats me sometimes, how greed and spite can lurk so divisively around the utmost courage and sacrifice.

Death is misery! The lifeless person was once full of life.

Gathering together of believers helps to grow in grace

I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.

Learning how to be agreeable is the key to learning self-control.

Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.