And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.
The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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.
Politics is a potent way to empower women.
You look up after many years and you find that a film has become a classic because it's meaningful to people and alive, decade after decade.
I gave out stars whenever an appropriate situation presented itself.
In a great number of the cosmogonic myths the world is said to have developed from a great water, which was the prime matter. In many cases, as for instance in an Indian myth, this prime matter is indicated as a solution, out of which the solid earth crystallized out.