I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

I hope you can someday forgive me.''I forgive you now.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

My songs are like my kids.

All you need to do is to look, listen, and trust.

It's not necessarily how many minutes you're on screen, it's the material you have. It's more important what it is you have to do than the amount of time you're there.

I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit.

My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste.

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.

Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place.