Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

Dreams are illustrations...from the book your soul is writing about you.

To lose--get angry and fight back. To win--forgive with love.

What we love we may also despise.

What's life when we live today and die tomorrow?

Same with the Coen brothers and Warren [Beatty]. And then slowly you get to know each one of them as a person, and that becomes a kind of separate entity, where you just know the human being.

Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

All there is to do, right at this very moment, is to breathe in, breathe out, and kiss the joy as it flies.

The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier.