When you know something, you know it, and when you don't, you'd better learn. And in the meantime, you should keep quiet, or at least speak only when what you say will advance the learning process.

Every hundred feet the world changes

The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

Nothing is ever behind us.

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…

You have to listen to women. You should never ignore a woman's fears.

His words saddened them greatly, though they couldn't say why.

Life isn't static, and sometimes, we don't realize the value of knowledge or even of people, until further down the track, when we're mature enough to truly understand.

It is through solitude that you can convert your time into something of value.

Everyone is overcoming something, be gentle.

Not your appearance, but your humility and power of love define your beauty.

Lord save us, first you have a heart, now you have a god? Will wonders never cease?

Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.

To leave this world a better person, and for me to not be the only one who knows it.

For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.