There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.
Learn to not live in fears and worries over your obstacles, because they don't control your destiny, God does.
We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
When we're in the shower, when we're thinking about our idea - boy, does it sound brilliant. But the reality is that most of our ideas are actually terrible.
Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.
One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...
When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.
With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad.
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Revolution like evolution does not come about overnight. Evolution delivers on its promises but revolution rarely delivers on what was promised.
Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
