Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Today is a new day.You will get out of it just what you put into it.

The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.

"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

I saw Hollywood born and I've seen it die...

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You can start over any moment you choose.

Don't make the editor's decision for her by not submitting.

Sometimes you just gotta wear the tinfoil hat.

Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.

One will never get any more than he thinks he can get. YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES. Look back and see your progress - damn the torpedo, full speed ahead!

Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.

Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.

Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be received.

Yes," she says, her eyes bright with tears. "My dear child, you've done so well.