No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

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

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

I am not now That which I have been.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

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.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

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

What is to give light must endure burning.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.