One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

I love you, ’ he whispered, and kissed my brow. ‘Thorns and all.

Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

That which we have lived is nothing; that which we live is a point; that which we have to live is not yet a point, but may be a point which, together, shall be and shall have been.

The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.

Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse.

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.

Confronted with a choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.

Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because the isolation of England comes from her superiority.