I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed.
Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.
No emotion is the final one.
The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.
there is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even feared, in our Western Democracies. Don't let anyone else have what I've not got, or can't enjoy! - is the secret theory. A very large number of writers in the British and American popular press profess to be preaching democracy when in fact they are only trying to make envy respectable!
I get a lot of independent films from people who are starting out.