Some wrong eternity that wouldn’t budge, like trying to move a wardrobe or a safe, only to feel how light I was.

Once our idea of heaven meant all the dead relatives waiting on the kept lawn of the many mansions as if, suddenly sinless, they had nothing to do.

...heaven may be only the mind's fear of the wonders it imagines.

Politics is the only field in which the character of a person does not stand in the way of his career.

If you choose to be fearless, then be fearlessly authentic not an imitation of someone you envy.

Even when our Life is Full of Problems there will always be a Little bit sunshine of Happiness.

It's not good to dig in the past, raise the ghost up from the grave, and have it walk with the flesh.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you will cease to be so.

Christianity is a fighting religion.

Live like someone died for you.

In all my documentaries I did all the camera work, but in fiction I didn't want to do it myself. I think the machinery is so heavy and demanding that you would leave the actors alone for a long time.

That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.