Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

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

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

The day of individual happiness has passed

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

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

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.