When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.

A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills.

You always have to give 100%,because if you don't someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.

I knew in that moment that I was full of it. I didn't know who I was. I only knew my routine. I knew who I was suppose to be, who I was expected to be.

There were moments when Szara suspected that many idealists drawn to Communism were, at heart, people with an appetite for clandestine life.

It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary one climbs higher and higher with the advancing years and that too with surprising strides.

How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?

I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way.

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

I think we deserve a happily-ever-after." "If anyone ever did, it's us.

I didn't want it to have any technical virtuosity; I wanted it to just be really clear how it was made. For my work in general, it's always really clear how it is made.

Every time you drink an inferior bottle, it is as if you took a fine bottle and smashed it against a wall. You can't get that bottle back!

The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places.