We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

Laughter is inner jogging.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life.

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.

We live in an age that's repeating itself endlessly. We're getting closer again to the techno-chic world we saw in Atlantis that occurs in countless planes. It's indigenous to enlightenment.

I don't think there is any place in football for drinking. I have said on several occasions to players: You don't put diesel in a Ferrari.

Wanting neither too much to live, nor too much to die.

I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm : all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others.

Atheism is spreading like wildfire.

Ultimately, a more experienced director realizes that you've got to stop sometime and just move on. They're braver about that.