You must put the odor of the human body into images describe for me the implacable, the egoistic, the sensual, the cruel there are nothing but disgusting people in this world.

People like me and Ozu get films made by hard work, but Shimizu is a genius.

When I try to achieve greatness, it spits on me the night before.

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.

I have something else to ask you, to ask every American. I ask you to pray for this great nation.

The earth turns, and the seasons, and for all his pride and power man cannot temper the winds or change their course. They are the unseen tides that shape our days and our years.

Time goes by slowly when you spend it waiting.

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.

Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills.

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.