We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

Sunlight is painting.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director