Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

I want to be in New Zealand SO BADLY. I've dreamt about coming to New Zealand ever since I was a kid.

He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.

... reason accepts no commandments.

Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome. [Though a lie be well dressed, it is ever overcome.]

In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures.

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.