I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Boards don't hit back.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

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

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Thought is free.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.