What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with?

You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself.

The final portrait is often furthest from the truth.

A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.

Environment' is a term that creates no pictures in the mind, which is why I have begun to use 'natural world' or 'living planet' instead.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

I developed a group of friends around me that were all as crazy as I was about wanting to make films.

The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence.

The Marquesan girls dance all over; not only do their feet dance, but their arms, hands, fingers, ay, their very eyes seem to dance in their heads.

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

The choice is ours, in every moment.

Simply, with a Republican Congress sitting shotgun, Mitt Romney will put the middle class on the roof and take us for a long, painful ride.

You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.