It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.

Language is the archives of history.

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.

Unexemplary words and unfounded doctrines are avoided by the noble person. Why utter them?

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.