One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

You go through things sometimes that make you aware of the really good things in life.

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.

Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.

After September 11th, nations from across the globe offered their generous assistance to the people of New York. And whenever our friends around the world need our assistance, New York is there.

Inspiration doesn't respond to meeting requests. You can't schedule greatness.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well.

Other heights in other lives, God willing.

Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac.

In some ways, TV is more regimented, but there is a level of professionalism that's very high, among the people that work in television.