“The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - h...” — Samuel Smiles Quote

“The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.”

“It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.”

“Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.”

“In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.”

“The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.”

“The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.”