My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

Arnold Bennett

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.

W. H. Sheldon

Students of the Ichi school Way of strategy should train from the start with the sword and long sword in either hand. This is the truth: when you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do so, and to die with a weapon yet undrawn.

Miyamoto Musashi

At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness -- not crimes and scandals.

Soren Kierkegaard

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.

Guru Nanak

You can't handle the truth. Because the truth is, I blew up the Murrah building and isn't it kind of scary that one man could reap this kind of hell?

Timothy McVeigh

Living life ONCE is enough...if you live life RIGHT.

John Paul Warren

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

Bar Refaeli

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

Jessica Savitch

Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and after having given you to me, Cosette, what has he done with himself? He has sacrificed himself. Behold the man. And he says to me the ingrate, to me the forgetful, to me the pitiless, to me the guilty one: Thanks! Cosette, my whole life passed at the feet of this man would be too little. That barricade, that sewer, that furnace, that cesspool,--all that he traversed for me, for thee, Cosette! He carried me away through all the deaths which he put aside before me, and accepted for himself. Every courage, every virtue, every heroism, every sanctity he possesses! Cosette, that man is an angel!

Victor Hugo

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

Karl Lagerfeld

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

Frances O'Grady