The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north.

There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

Brent had a love-hate relationship with the Government. He hated what it had become over the years and loved to make an issue about it.

Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character.

When we quarrel how we wish we had been blameless.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in.

I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.

People forget that the church is bigger than China. It speaks more languages than the United Nations. It has more volunteers than all the NGOs in the world put together.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre.