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

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

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

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

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

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

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

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.