Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Today is a new day.You will get out of it just what you put into it.

The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.

Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something

"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.

I saw Hollywood born and I've seen it die...

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You can start over any moment you choose.

A smile costs about $240.

Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

Comics don't like to see other comics do well.

How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.

When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.

Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed

Whatever your determination or will power, it is foolish to try to change the nature of things. Things work the way they do because that is the way of things

Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.