People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

It takes a great man to make a great listener

If an ordinary man can be tapped to be the Messiah...then perhaps any one of us is capable of bringing about the Redemption.

The best gift you can give me is a book.

Hail to thee blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert That from Heaven or near it Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Write. Write until it stops hurting.

Good leaders are scarce; so I'm following myself.

Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.

One very important element for me to make a movie is, it has to be unique and different from any other.