No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.

The most important person in the motion picture process is the writer... and we must do everything in our power to prevent them from ever realizing it.

Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.

Compliments you pay to yourself aren't worth having.

What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.

Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

Without hope, I wouldn’t even try. Hope lifts me to consider new possibilities so I can stay the course of my desire, no matter what.

A problem is an opportunity to see your life through another window.

For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility.

The emotions must be called upon to give feeling to the thought so it will take form. - Charless Haanel P.g29

The universe was playing with loaded dice, which insured an excess of cowards in our ranks.

Our enemies have made the mistake that America's enemies always make. They saw liberty and thought they saw weakness. And now, they see defeat.

I like the pace of my world. It's busy, but for me, the less I do the lazier I get.

The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.

If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence.

It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated.