Babies are born with neither good nor bad character. Normal people - as they grow, learn and are trained - develop better or worse dispositions and habits of conduct.

The habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good person, all of which must be drawn from within.

When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.

The truth is that you are innately good, wise, and powerful. You were created in and for good.

Son, don't mind what's missing. Count allthat's free: friendship, laughter, all thelove your heart can carry, and time -- count time.

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

You teach what you need to learn.

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.