Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they’re at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they’re lurking in my shower. Sometimes they’re waiting patiently in glass cases in museums.
Labour is the source of every blessing.
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool
Familiarity breeds contempt.
We should use our judgment before coming to a decision.
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
In a crisis, give help first and then advice.
Film is a director's medium, and a film set is a complicated military structure - I have to keep reminding myself to stay in my place, or all will burst into chaos.
I like the transience of Klimt paintings.
Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.
Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.