It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

There are no such things as curses

You can take the minister out of the pulpit, but you can’t take the ministry out of the minister.

There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.

I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

The true value of communication is often not so much what you say to each other but the simple, powerful fact that you care enough to say something to each other so often.

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.

You've got to play with pride and guts.

The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for.

I wish my daughters would box. I'm so worried about the guys coming up to them. I would love them to be able to smack a guy right off a bar stool.