Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

I said if I made 10 films in my life, I would be very lucky. That's how I meant it. My fear after my first one was whether they would let me make another one, so I had this goal in my head.

happiness, unlike grief, does not clamor for a chronicler.

Thought is the most highly organized form of energy known to man.

Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity with the personalities that come up, but actors are their own animal.

At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.