Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

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

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.

The future ain't what it used to be.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

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

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

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

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

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

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

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