I haven't been in a good mood since I was 6 years old
Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.
The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant.
Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
. . . The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in; machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity, more than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities life will be violent and all will be lost.
More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness
From the first time I did a movie, people have said, 'Oh, it's all going to change now. ' And it would change, but very incrementally. I think I prefer that to some big explosion of fame all of the sudden.
We are not certain, we are never certain.
I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.
Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to 6 months to come up with a story.