You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Moonlight is sculpture.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

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

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.