A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Who listens to golfers? They're boring. If I want to wear camouflage on the golf course during a tournament, I will. And I have.

I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

Barack Obama spent his first day as president-elect putting together his transition team. And if you believe MSNBC, by tomorrow he will have chosen all 12 of his disciples.

Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.

I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creating it, rather than being in it.

I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

It's so important to forgive people for their wrongs in your own life because every bit of it was for a reason-it was to form the person that you are.