Thought is free.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
