As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

All my life I dreamed of an apartment in Paris where I could cook, and now I have one, on the Left Bank.

I have no regrets, none whatsoever.

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.

Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way.

If things are going slow, I'm itchy.

Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.

We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.

John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me.

I cannot stand being awake, the pain is too much.