You are not required to perform like them, you are required to perform like you.

People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth

A humble heart, a friendly look, a smile on the face is really what you need to break the ice, not a very big axe.

The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you

Those who complain that fate is against them will have a hard time finding happiness in their lives

Some beliefs are so strongly held that some believers are ready to lose their heads rather than the belief they carry therein

When something looks impossible, don’t give up without testing its impossibility

As you fight any war, sometimes the result may be defeat. Learn to be heroic even in your defeats.

Life has a meaning but do not set out to find out. Just live it out.

This life is not perfect, live it to the full, it's all we have

You will always find all the time you need in the world to do what you love. If you can’t find the time, it’s not important for you

The abundance of life is in the number of people it influences and gives legacy

Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.

A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

There is no better manager than a natural born one.

This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.

Love is the mystery of water and a star.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.