No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Life is a mystery, not a riddle. It has to be lived, not solved.

I had said before that all stories were magic. It had never occurred to me that all magic was stories.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?

And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white.

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.

The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we were but yesterday, though that yesterday had passed over us unappreciated and unenjoyed.