Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
Nothing is black or white.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.