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.

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

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

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.

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

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.