If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

This is my greatest desire, to move heavenly onward.

Future is predestined and unchangeable.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files

There are men too gentle to live among wolves.

We may call painting the grandchild of nature.

Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.

Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.