Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Gratitude leads to wellness.

Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry of a house?

You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it

There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.

Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.

Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.