Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.
People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
She is also brought to a point of zero in the beginning of the story, and I think you can say that about a lot of my films in that they are often about people who are brought to the point of zero in the beginning of the film.
It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.
To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.
I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.
I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.
I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.