Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I'm living in a world of goldfish.

Mocking Hugh Hefner is easy to do, and in my mind should be made easier.

Everybody has to play a side because if you play both sides you a snake if you not a peacemaker.

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.

Doubt is really a groping ignorance.

Don't make promises you can't keep.

When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better feeling.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.