Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have.
Philosophy. . . bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.
Where are we really going? Always home.
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
After 'Bhaji On The Beach', I didn't make a movie for six years. I couldn't get a movie off the ground for love nor money. It was a very tough time and I almost gave up. If I had been an Oxbridge bloke after 'Bhaji', my career would have been very different
Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.
We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists