You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a habit.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.

I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.

We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.

I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own.

What we do outwardly will only interrupt the flow of our perfect attention is it is not in harmony with the dharma.

When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

I am too slow to be a good climber, so I film instead.

Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves-our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.

There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.