Why are you in such a rush?" Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done.

It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.

Storms probably exist only because after them we can have a sunrise.

A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he's looking, he's free, and he finds things he never expected.

Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine.

It’s only the sea,’ said Moomintroll. ‘Every wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you mustn’t go inside because it’s a labyrinth and you may never come out again.

There's no need to imagine that you're a wondrous beauty, because that's what you are.

There are those who stay at home and those who go away, and it has always been so. Everyone can choose for himself, but he must choose while there is still time and never change his mind.

You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.

It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them.

What the heck kind of name was Sir?

How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

Break a leg up there, and I'll be down here hopefully breaking someone elses.

All of us in all the Americas will be living at the point of a gun.

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.

When someone close to you dies, the line is shifted really drastically about what is meaningful and what isn't.

Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.