Some of my troubles are so familiar, I know them by their first names.
Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.
Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same. . . happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.
The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.
The less you speak, the more you will hear.
A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall to pieces, turn out to be sickly and pale, convince no one. Works which draw on truth and present it to us in live and concentrated form grip us, compellingly involve us, and no one ever, not even ages hence, will come forth to refute them.
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway. ' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!
I love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time.
Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories.