Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from "justifying" ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.
There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.