Hearsay, even from the people I love, doesn't equate to gospel truth.

I'm right and wrong, moral and immoral, good and bad, a hero and a villain, and I've been just as capable of truth as I have been lies.

Hate the sin, not the sinner, isn't that what good people say? Or are you asking yourself at what point does the sin overtake the sinner?

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

I am not sleepy at all!

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

He[ Italo Calvino] always said it would be impossible to try to make films out of his books, though he hoped it would happen because that's where the money was.

He who controls the past controls the future.

Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.

No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.

The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

For like to like, the proverb saith.