People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it.

I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it. Only try to keep yourself clear and don't allow that destructive force to spoil something that to you is simple, natural, and beautiful.

the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

There was a man who loved the moon, but whenever he tried to embrace her, she broke into a thousand pieces and left him drenched, with empty arms.

The monsters are gone.""Really?" Doubtful."I killed the monsters. That's what fathers do.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.

Well, for street clothes, a lot of what I wear is Jones New York. I am well-endowed in the derriere, and they can handle that.

Be grateful for the tiny details of your life and make room for unexpected and beautiful blessings.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.