Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

When we dream, there are no facts. Just imagination!

How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!

I do like the way people behave toward me and Theresa when we’re together-everyone’s voice changes to music, and we get all sorts of smiles.

My success wasn't so much due to intelligence, but the fact that I stuck with problems longer.

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

It's just unfair that talent of color aren't given the same opportunities as white and male actors, directors, producers, writers, et cetera.

The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.

Failure is an option, fear is not.

The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out.