Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.

Let not a single soul discharge you, because we are a group of beautiful people...and you two are richer, with greater potential than this soil.

The very nastiest and coarsest, I can't tell you. It is not grief, not dullness, but much worse. It is as if all that was good in me had hidden itself, and only what is horrid remains.

Laws ... would be useless on the moon.

My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.

The way to do well is to do well.

Humans are a TOUGH animal! We can do anything.

Never seek financial independence in independent cinema since independent cinema doesn't make money.

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!