I love you as New Englanders love pie!

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

I try to avoid stories that end with...and he was never seen again.

When the world seems against you then your own confident and willpower will lead you till you reach your goal..

Human knowledge hasn't been complete enough to understand the afterlife if it hasn't been through the valley of death.

I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.

When we learn to accept difficult circumstances patiently, the real problem disappears.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

There has to be policies about that, about what materials we use and so on.

So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.