The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation.

When young people are insecure, they find ways to manufacture love tests – personal metrics to reassure themselves.

If you don't have the courage to confront, you don't have the right to complain.Don't wait until anger gives you the courage!

If you want to sell 'em fish, sell 'em big fish. That's the secret to success.

That's my private business. Besides, the perception is that people that believe in God are stupid.

I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

I actually get more conservative when I'm in Vegas.

I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?