Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

Beware! devil occupies your soul with forbidden desires

I don’t care how smart you are. You’ll never understand how little you really know until you’ve had a woman.

Be the positive light that the crowd follows

No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.

Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?

Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light.

I don't buy jewelry just for the aesthetic side.

what's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

I'm not running for canonisation.