Put your expectations on God, not on people.

Don't let your feelings be a God to you.

I don't believe in the word 'influencer', I don't believe I'll inspire people, because what might be right for me might not be from another perspective.

I have learnt not to ignore instincts. While making a film, when your gut feels that you are going wrong, please take that seriously.

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.

instead of those broad blind alleys which philosophy showed us, a certain type of mind has always discerned three strait and narrow ways going out towards the Absolute. In religion, in pain, and in beauty-

Why, after all, take as our standard a material world whose existence is affirmed by nothing more trustworthy than the sense-impressions of "normal men"; those imperfect and easily cheated channels of communication?

The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

We sometimes look among our numbers to find one to whom we can point who agrees with us, so we can have company to justify our apostasy. We rationalize by saying that someday the Church doctrine will catch up with our way of thinking. Truth is not established by Gallup polls.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.