There is nothing permanent except change.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

Big results require big ambitions.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Change alone is unchanging.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

Day by day, what you do is who you become.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight.

I am a novelist, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

Make the choice to do something because it engages your heart as well as your mind. Make the choice because it engages all of you.

I've started films like Miami Vice where I'm in really good shape and I look back on that film and see the moustache is bigger as I've got a larger face.

The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself.

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.

The filmmaker is not telling you what to think.

I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general.

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!