Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

The past is never where you think you left it.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

You waste life when you waste good food.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

What we need now is endless courage.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.

Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.

If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.

It is my dominant intent to be good to me.

A light hand is one which never feels the contact of the bit with the bars.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.

In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.