I have always been allergic to telephones. As far as I am concerned, they are very seldom time-savers and very often the destroyers of schedules.

You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to the other people in the process!

One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.

A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.

The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.

Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!

Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.

A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

the only door into her bedroom led through the church.

A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.

An anaesthetic is a poet-killer.

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

When I make a movie, it's almost a relief to get shooting 'cause the hell is over, or part of the hell is over.

What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing

Take care of yourself - you never know when the world will need you.

Anything can happen with hard work and dedication

No nation is truly free until the animal, man's younger brother is free and happy.

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.