If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

We profit little by books we do not enjoy.

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

The world only knows those that have the word in them

My advice is to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work.

Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.

This world has a secret rule: Those who have to die live, and those who have to live die!

People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.

Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.

You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.