Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

Life took longer to reassemble than it did to blow apart, but that didn't mean it wouldn't be lovely, providing that one remembered to go for country walks, and to tune the wireless to music.

I think a primal role of a man in a relationship is to protect his woman.

If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.

There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

Life is a series of choices that are made in the present moment.

Holyfield won the fight. It's not the first time Romney has been knocked out by a black guy.

When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person.

I've never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as well, because stage is a full course meal

I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could.

The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.