it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

I am who I am and that's who I am

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.

You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world.(Matthew 5:14, The Message)

Many people keep going round in circles. In the end, they find they are where they started.

A storyteller makes up things to help other people

those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty

Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.

Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may not be in theoretical books published by Routledge, but they have a theory.

The philosophy to 'buy and hold' is a philosophy that I use to manage funds.

I forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her.

Tomorrow can be a wonderful age.

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.