Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

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.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

If I had known what it would be like to have it all I might have been willing to settle for less.

I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.

Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.

Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.

Everybody has their own problems. No matter how big you think yours are, there is someone else that has bigger problems or different problems.

In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

And sometimes you meet someone who doesn't see you any differently if you tell them. That is everything.

I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years.

He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself.