When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.

Do you know a cure for me?""Why yes, " he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water.""Salt water?" I asked him."Yes, " he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.

Come now and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they gave got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.

When there is no personal responsibility in any society, there cannot be a responsible government.

The sacred time exist in days, weeks, months, seasons and years.

It’s not that the hero is blind to the dangers of the journey

There's no such thing as an independent person.

... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.

What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

I guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian.

We are worse off - all of us, including men and boys - if our society is not developing and empowering 100% of the resources of humanity, including women and girls.

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.