"Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired."

"I think about life, and I think about death. And neither of them particularly appeal to me."

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been!'"

"Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles."

"The price is what you pay; the value is what you receive."

"I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and love flooded my soul."

"Every time one laughs a nail is removed from one's coffin."

"Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life."

"Your descendants shall gather your fruits."

"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."

"It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad."

"It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame."