She had the power to remove a child from an unkind parent and she sometimes did. But remove herself from an unkind husband? When she was weak and desolate? Where was her protective judge?

Jokes against the legal profession were what the legal profession loved most.

I am not trying to teach you anything but trying to ignite the fire of curiosity for knowledge and wisdom.

The spirit of a man is divine.

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.

You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.

Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

Will you punish me forever?

Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.