Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

Better die standing than live kneeling.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

Mirrors are liars. They tell us what we expect to see.

Live every day like it's your last. Treasure the moments you have, and make sure you make them count.

The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.

I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's a very freeing thing.

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.

When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.

I try not to bore my readers.

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.

It's no good pacing up and down. It won't make the plane arrive any faster. Just sit down and accept that we're delayed. You're just making a fool of yourself.