It takes a different kind of thinking to solve a problem than the kind of thinking which produced the problem.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

When a Southern woman offers you a homecooked meal, you're only rude if you refuse. That goes for seconds and thirds too, by the way." -Ruby Watts

As an actor, when you're doing comedies, you're around fantastic, funny people and you hopefully have a really good time doing it.

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

marriages do not take root in the presence of witnesses but only in the consciousness of the persons involved.

You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.

Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light.

The press has made up so much...God...awful, horrifying stories...it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it.

Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.