Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

Either you follow-up or you fold-up

A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another.

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.

Ski racing is not about how much you weigh. If weight was the key, everybody would be sucking down food.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.

There are no inevitabilities in history

Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.