Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

His words were coated with glorious boredom

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.

It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan.

For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.

Reaction is what changes your understanding of the world.

What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking?

Thou wilt always rejoice in the evening, if thou spend the day profitably.