Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Think before you speak, unless it's urgent

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.

The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

Quite honestly, a baby covered in blood, still slightly blue, eyes screwed up, in the first few minutes after birth, is not an object of beauty.

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. To-day it is for thee; tomorrow it is against thee. It arms the eyes of the envious every where. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

Impossibility is a dictionary word.

Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.