Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.

Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

It's very demeaning that we have to put on a show to prove that we know how to put on a show.

When you look out the other way toward the stars you realize it's an awful long way to the next watering hole.

This is the theater. And this is the best place for the imagination.

In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.

Tedium is the bane of immortality.

I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.

All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.