Every noble crown is and on earth will ever be a crown of thorns.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

We can become so cruel and so selfish when we are afraid.

I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on.

Never worry about what you're going lose but what you're going gain

It [moviemaking] is all a relationship business. It's a personal business. It's all personal relationships, if you're lucky enough to build on one to the other.

When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.

Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

There are some great shows that come and go really fast, either because the network doesn't give them a chance or they just don't grab on to the psyche of the country quickly enough.

An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.

Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

As you stopped to say hello, oh, you wished me well, you couldn't tell that I'd been crying over you.