Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.

He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Nothing will content him who is not content with a little.

Better the friend we can see than the money we cannot.

It is better in times of need to have a friend rather than money.

In times of difficulty friendship is on trial.

The beginning is half of every action.

If deeds are wanting all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.

Gray hair is a sign of age not of wisdom.

He who would be happy should stay at home.

When our eyes made contact it was like being slapped, I just wanted to recoil

You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, 'What do you do? What do you do for a job?' and I say, 'I make documentaries for the BBC, ' and you see their eyes just glaze over.

When you're going through an emotional experience and you're focussed completely on what's happening, you can't even spare any attention that the camera's there.

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.

The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the welfare of all.

Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it"

The real problem is not the bad guys; it is that good guys have gone to sleep.

We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.