My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

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

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.