The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it.
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense
Genius is of no country.
Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.
You want to know the secret of my success? Let me tell you about eugenics.
On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry!
When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought.