Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Standing where God's mercies fall is the guarantee for being blessed.

He unclenched his fists and dropped her worries, unable to catch them for her. But she picked them back up and dusted them off. She wants to be able to hold them herself now.

Just saw a woman with a big tattoo of Jesus on her back. I guess it's an ixnay on the oggy style-day.

Directing a movie is the greatest job in the world. I could not be more envious of the guys who get to do it all the time.

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.

We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

Politics enter dangerous ground, when people proclaim there are simple answers for our complex world.

Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.