Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Today is a new day.You will get out of it just what you put into it.

The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.

Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something

"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

I saw Hollywood born and I've seen it die...

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young.

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?

Create each day anew.

Men are going to go out on the road and they're going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don't.

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.

I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.

And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.

Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.