This world is all vanity. It is a tempest hurling us from one sorrow to another.

It is not his body which makes a man strong, but his spirit. Nothing on the outside, but only that which comes from within.

It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of.

Suffering is the fire by which love is tested.

There are no easy paths in this life. And when troubles arise, we must face them with the same dignity as we do success.

Some things are worth the wait. A little suspense heightens the pleasure.

It is not always the motives behind an action that make it noble. Sometimes it is as simple as the action itself.

There is no honor in cruelty.

The basic idea is that all things in the universe are intertwined.

Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.

Florence Farr once said to me "If we could say to ourselves with sincerity 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know ' we could die upon the instant and be united with God."

You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.

Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.

You stand out like a fart in a church.

What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.