Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.

It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.

It's not how many years you've lived, it's how they've left you.

There's nothing makes you admire people like seeing yourself in them.

Tea! The English could always be pacified with it!

Happiness don't ask to see who you be afore her sits down at your table. 'Er comes and sits with them as know how to welcome her and keep her the willing guest.

It is to live that requires courage, not to die.

I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that.” I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.

How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.

I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.

I've always thought you've got to believe in luck to get it.

There is an enlightened way to flow with, in, and through conflict.

The only antidote to religious triumphalism is the readiness of communities of faith to permit doubt and self-criticism to play a vital role in the life of Faith.

I am not afraid of death. When I have to confront the great reaper, I would like to recall Bernanos' words- 'And now, just the two of us!'.

Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself

I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope

Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man as the primary filmmaker.

Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda.

The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!

I’ve always been a person who’s been true to myself and true to others and I’m not afraid to be honest.