I may be heaven-sent, but I'm not perfect.
Let your courage mount with difficulties. There would be no will if there were no resistance.
Wisdom is not knowledge, but lies in the use we make of knowledge.
What each one of us fundamentally needs is that inner peace which is to be discovered solely within ourselves, which no-one else can give, which the world with all its resources, can never supply.
There is no wisdom without love.
The state of love is the state of grace. The development of that state and the unlocking of its mysteries brings one to the condition where there is no separation between oneself and others
What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.
Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.
this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries, arrested, while the concrete forest of the modern world grows up around her.
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.
There are some films that really break the mold, and some films that don't. I've been looking for films that break the mold a bit.