Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

You can remodel yourself to anything you want to become.

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

No one realized that the pumps that delivered fuel to the emergency generators were electric.

I don't think I'll be playing again. I'm very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven't gotten to do, be a father.

I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.

If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life

I have always tried to work with first-time actors since my first movie. I always like to do movies with debutants.

One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done abroad because people simply don't know they are there.

By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.

To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.