The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth He casteth away

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game ! and lost.

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

I became conflicted in my late teens.

Interviewers always used to ask me about my pageboy haircut, and it drove me nuts: it almost made me suspect that there was something strange about it. So I cut off my pageboy.

I always stayed married to my husband! Always, until the day he died! It's not true that we were separated!

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

There is nothing in the universe but matter.

If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world

Food to a large extent is what holds a society together, and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.