Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature.
One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.
Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.
…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.
The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs.
I think I have an awareness inside of me that we are all the same, that basically we are all part of that one heart.