The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.

I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.

To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.

I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then.

The essential difference in service is not machines or 'things.' The essential difference is minds, hearts, spirits, and souls.

As long as there is a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together.

many writers believe in arrival without leaving home. They believe in talent but not skill.

Theists and atheists are equally religious.

When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.