You may have a fresh start anytime you choose.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Today is a new day.You will get out of it just what you put into it.

The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.

Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something

"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

I saw Hollywood born and I've seen it die...

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

The wealth of some people is here on earth. The wealth of other people is somewhere afar from the earth. Whatever the wealth may be, we must think of a wealth that is distinctive

Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.

You're nothing if you're not special.

The best way to help the poor is to slash taxes and allow savings, investment, and creation of jobs to proceed unhampered.

The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.

Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.

[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts and other things I didn't have or didn't happen and so on.

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.