Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

There are no friends; only moments of friendship.

Perform your task and I shall know you. Perform your task and your genius shall befriend the more.

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.

After all these years, I still feel like a boy when I'm on a stream

I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.

I don't think we find compassion. I think we become the space that compassion wants to live in.

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people