The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

The key to life is to set goals and go after those goals, don't hold anything back.

Life is a beautiful thing. But you're always striving to be better in your art, striving to be heard. And obviously in a movie business, it's striving to be noticed and appreciated.

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.

Watch out for the icy patch

The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation.

The path that we are headed on economically in America is one that leads to total ruination of the American system.

New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.