Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

A good liar must have a good memory.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director