One either rises to an occasion or succumbs to it.
One cannot do humour without a great sympathy for one’s fellow man.
My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a nonconformist.
Most all our worldly troubles are only drifting bubbles. Most all our cares and sorrows are gone with our tomorrows.
Love is life on a higher plain of existence, working through man to unite the forces of nature into a perfect whole. It is the merging force binding every element in existence into a perfect whole.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Life and death are too resolute, too implacable to be accidental.
Let us try to understand each other’s problems, for in modern warfare there is no victory.
Let us strive for the impossible. The great achievements throughout history have been the conquest of what seemed the impossible.
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease from pain.
Knowledge inspires courage. I’m not sceptical but I’d sooner know than believe.
It is not reality that matters in a film but what the imagination can make of it.
