What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dearI like my toast done on one sid

If I got too famous, I'd just quit acting, but I think it's highly unlikely I'm going to get really famous.

Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he loves.

But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information.

Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

I can make no apologies for following my heart.

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film.

The body does not end with our skin - it extends into time, into space, and into other people.

Man is whole when he is in tune with the winds, the stars, and the hills... Being in tune with the universe is the entire secrets.