“…because academics everywhere are forever attacking one another, and I had long since learned that one must never believe what a teacher says of another.”

“If I never make another film, I don't care as long as I'm true to what I believe in, which is being kind.”

“Two very different virtues can attack one another long and viciously. But the time will come when they recognize that they are sisters.”

“I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.
It's just getting out of one car, and into another.”

“Let not one bring Learning, another Diligence, another Religion, but every one bring all.”

“To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.”

“In chess or in football, the tactic that proves most effective is soon the one that people learn easily to block. Every innovation in attack is soon countered by another in defence.”

“What! all of us, Christians, not only profess to love one another, but do actually live one common life; we whose social existence beats with one common pulse—we aid one another, learn from one another, draw ever closer to one another to our mutual happiness, and find in this closeness the whole meaning of life!—and to-morrow some crazy ruler will say some stupidity, and another will answer in the same spirit, and then I must go expose myself to being murdered, and murder men—who have done me no harm—and more than that, whom I love. And this is not a remote contingency, but the very thing we are all preparing for, which is not only probable, but an inevitable certainty.”

“I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.”

“Each day another boy and girl sets foot into this world
One reaches out to touch the sky
One never learns to fly.”