All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

No two persons ever read the same book.

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.

Sometimes it’s best to stop searching for your passion. Instead, follow your curiosity and see where it leads.

Anyone can stay up late, but only the disciplined can get up early.

Disappointments should be cremated not embalmed.

Much of God's will for your life is already found in the Bible.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

Between my past, the present and the future, there is one common factor: Relationship and Trust. This is the foundation of our growth.

If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

I don't think politics is any longer about a conversation with the country.

Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water.