A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.

We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

My day-mind can endure / Upright, in hope, all it must undergo. / But O, afraid, unsure, / My night-mind waking lies too low, too low.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?

Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds...

The mechanics of Nature ensures that the shadow of yesterday doesn't eclipse the dawn of tomorrow.

Thank God (my wife) and I were both born poorso the concept of fidelity was allowed to take root in us.

Go back to the band, Egg. Please.” - Bex

...nothing cements a friendship like hating the same person.

I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

I got fed up of listening to bollocks

I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of.

And in self-giving we become really happy. Real humility is the expansion of our consciousness and our service.

If you use hand-held techniques just to make the film stylish I think it's wrong.