hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

Innovate, don't imitate. Set out to create a culture that is right for your organization, then work at making it happen.

I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.

Nothing is small if God accepts it.

I'd probably be a burglar, I'd burgle people.

Set your sights not just on the next few weeks ... set your sights on the years ahead - because our vision will look that far ahead.