“In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.”

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Creating is the essence of life.

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see.

In extreme danger fear feels no pity.

The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

Let us go where the gods have shown us the way and the injustice of our enemies calls us.

Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.

Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I’ve always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.

As you well know, you just can’t believe everything you see and hear, can you?

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.

I believe that there’s something interesting about anyone and everyone – you just have to figure out what that something is.

When you believe in things that you don’t understand, then you suffer.

Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.

Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.