A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.

After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day.

Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?

I make my pictures for people, not for critics.

The Ten Commandments are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

Susannah continued. "If and when I go off slow dancing in the ever after, I don't want to look like I've been stuck in a hospital room my whole life. I at least want to be tan.

The most satisfying of languages, Latin.

He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant, ” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.

...I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again...

I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.

I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.

All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.

Who knows most, doubts most.