Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

I walk out the door with a heavy feeling in my heart as another secret falls on top of it.

Often, on the brink of finding the recipe for immortality, I get distracted by the frightful presence of death.

To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.

A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.

A good life is a collection of happy memories.

I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from a place of deep, sad longing to be loved and to have it proven that you are of value.

All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind.

Where will wants not, a way opens.

I want to take a few years out, maybe make a couple of more films or whatever.

Jesus Christ, this godamn rain, will someone put me on a train.