We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Into each life some rain must fall.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot benaturally loved.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom.

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them.

I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.