The moment you start arguing with an ignorant fool, you have already lost.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

The height the dupe has fallen is measured by his anger.

You know, it's fashionable right now for people to be cynical. We go in cycles like this and right now a lot of people are saying, 'Oh, America is doing terribly' and 'What are we going to do?'

I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun.

I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night.

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

When I was 9 years old, Star Trek came on.