The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact

So, yes, I will marry you. Someday. If you'll have me, " he said modestly."Of course I will, you idiot, " I said with a shriek, and threw myself into his arms.

Say no to death pies. Another good motto.

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both.

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

Isn’t everyone’s life a mass of contradictions?

I found out that I could not choose a subject, throw it out of focus, and then have a good picture. I found that I had to learn to see No-focus from the beginning.

I think that creative people, wherever they are, in any field, take inspiration wherever they can find it.

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.