The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect.

I always believe you can't kill good movies, because somebody's in some room and will die unless it gets made.

Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.

I've seen the needle And the damage done A little part of it in everyone But every junkie's Like a settin' sun.

Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing.