"When I make a documentary I shoot very little but I hang around with my camera for a long time. I look at the people for a long time through the loop and then when I see something interested then I shoot. I think that I have become very sensitive to these things."

“When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in the early spring.”

“A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude problem”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 15, 2013

“Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!”

“Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.”

“Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it was originally designed”

Source : John Maynard Smith (1982). “Evolution and the Theory of Games”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

“I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?”

“How had I become middle-aged while the ravages of time ignored her? I didn't know and didn't care, and before I could stop them, the words were already out. "You're beautiful," I murmured.”

“Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.”