"There are moments when the past feels so close you could reach out and touch it, and then it’s gone again, like smoke."

The best films are the ones that stay with you long after you’ve seen them.

Success comes when you focus on the long-term, not just the quarterly results.

The statesman， who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals， would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safely be trusted， not only to no single person， but to no council or senate whatever， and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats its writers.