... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

When You Feel like Quitting, Remember those who told you, you’ll never make it.

As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.

I could impart excitement, but not urgency. – Francis Chen

I'm a very goal-oriented person.

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.

I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.

Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between the church and state.

I have been nothing, but there is tomorrow.

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.