There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.

We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.

We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.

Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.

A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.

Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.

Where there is a strong desire and profound hope, there is a way.

He had to grow his own NCOs.

One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

It was interesting to have humanoid villains that were rooted in our three-dimensional reality... or four dimensional reality, I'm not sure which!

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]

The queen had passed him, so close he'd felt the stir of air, and he guessed that if she had turned her head, only a little, and met his eyes, he might have died right there.

In a sick world even the hale are sick.

When I film, there are no emotions. That would be the last thing.