The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT.

atheists are the most faithful people I ever met

We're all blessed and we're all blighted, Chief Inspector, " said Finney. "Everyday each of us does our sums. The question is, what do we count?

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

I never heard the term "art world" until I was in my thirties, and I was like, "What are you guys talking about?" It's the world, and we all live in the world!