It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry.

The elderly become invisible sooner than we would hope.

When we love and want nothing but good for that person, it's one of the greatest gifts we possess.

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.

Women are great bullsh*t detectors. They know when it's not real.

Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.