I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy others look at what I have and think me happy.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.

People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.

There are no golden geese. There are only fat geese eating the food that could nourish more athletic opportunities for women.

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

I'm superstitious. Before I start a movie, I always kill a hobo with a hammer.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.

A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.