No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
A wise man learns at the fool's expense.
Despise learning and make everyone pay for your ignorance.
Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.
By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.
Learn who are your friends when you are in need.
What little Hans didn't learn, big Hans doesn't know.
If you wish to learn the highest truth, begin with the alphabet.
The farmer is a born philosopher, the aristocrat has to learn how.
Italians talk to women, Frenchmen to the learned, and the Spaniard talks to God.
We must learn to walk before we can run.
Great companies are formed by great people. It’s not about attracting great people; it’s about retaining them.
...what distinguishes pulp fiction from great literature is how emphatically the work challenges us to interpret it.
The real distinction between being great and being less great seems to be the extent to which we are willing to be pushed along by our own desires.
Every child born into the world has a divine mission to fulfill. As the child grows into adulthood, he or she must act to fulfill the divine mission.
You can actually overcome all the limitations of life and achieve your dreams, if you don't give up too early.
You have to first dream and take the first action towards realising the dream, then all other resources will be attracted to you for the achievement of the dream.
Why do men create suffering for others and fight over material wealth? Naked we come into the world, naked will go out of the world.
I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.
Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philade...
