The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

There was nothing about youth that was fair: the young hadn't done anything to deserve it, and the old hadn't done anything to drive it away.

At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.

When a man gets up so high (spiritual mountaintop) that he cannot reach down and save poor sinners, there is something wrong.

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

Once you realize something, then you can't pretend you don't know it any more.

To reach your own goals and dreams, you must learn how to assist others in reaching theirs

But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.

Love is powerful. It can bring the gods to their knees.

An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.