The proper, wise balancingof one's whole life may depend upon thefeasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is.

Many times you will fail. That is the nature of the world, and the truth of life. But when you find your horse again, will go back or will you go forward?

There's nothing that can defy the law of movement. Everything was created to move including the biggest of our mountains.

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.

That's life again. We can't decide what we like.

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get a little bit older and realize how fragile life is, and you're more careful.

Things which don't shift and grow are dead things.

You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.