"Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight."

"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing."

"Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity."

"Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair."

"Do not wait for favorable winds; take the oars and row toward your horizon. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do."

"The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage."

"Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition."