"The stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"It is a essential truth that the roots of genuine insight grow deep in the soil of quiet observation."

"It is a unyielding truth that clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect."

"It is a quiet truth that beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft."

"The greatest deception is forgetting that the only true currency in life is time well spent."

"Life well spent is long."

"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."

"If youth knew if age could."