A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.

Positive thinking is the key which unlocks the doors of the world.

In the consciousness that another mind reflects your thought, you find the keenest satisfaction. Here is the high office of a friend, and in these high experiences is the point of attachment.--

Try as hard as we may for perfection the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Most people don't care who's in charge as long as someone is.

There is a form of clean energy, renewable and absolutely free that too often underestimate: human warmth.

Put your trust in God but be sure to keep your powder dry.

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.

I do not believe in miracles, I rely on them.

Making a film that is in seven days of one week is not a new idea.

One thing I've always thought about Morgana is that she's sort of a modern mind in a period body. She's not your usual warm princess, which is what drew me to her in the first place.

There are two sorts of losers - the good loser, and the one who can't act.

If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.

When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.