All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director
The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
Moonlight is sculpture.
Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
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.
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
