Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

Truth could never be wholly contained in words.

he tried to prepare himself for disappointment, even as he yearned to be proven wrong

Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time is over. They find you out and send you packing.

I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies.

Money has not changed me. When I look at money, each dollar represents an option of something I could not do yesterday.

Addicts are ALWAYS irrational when it comes to their habits.

Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?

Whoever has a heart full of love always has something to give.

In them days I just as soon died -- except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.

I hope America manages to steer itself away from partisanship and back to patriotism; we are all Americans. And as long as I can make people laugh and feel better, I'm happy.