They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Alan Carr is an out and proud gay man but there isn't a famous bisexual equivalent - it's a lot rarer.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

They seem much rarer now those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Rare as is true love true friendship is rarer.

In my experience it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.