The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.
The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
There is no other teacher but your own soul.
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.
There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
Not every child learns for the same purpose, not every child thrives in the same settings and schools. Limiting a child to just one opportunity does nothing more than limit that child's future. The way forward must involve more public charter schools, which offer parents a tuition-free alternative to their neighborhood school.
To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.
Work won't do me any good. . . I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.