What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

Christmas it too large to be tucked away in the toe of a child's stocking.

We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.

Crowds speak in heroes.

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.

I'm not stuck in anybody's body. I'm me.

I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.

I love to hand sew. I sometimes make clothing for my children, which of course they grow out of in a matter of minutes. I thoroughly love it.

There is an advantage to be found in most everything that happens to you, even if it is not immediately apparent.

the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.

You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

Every character in each of my movies is a different side of myself.

I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.