I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue.

Reveal to the people and make them experience God first before you make them church members

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets.

You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.

I am in fact a hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated).

I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.

Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

We ran out of talent tonight. The guys played as hard as they could, as long as we could.

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.