I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

No two persons ever read the same book.

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

When I realized that my body had been damaged from adverse environmental exposures, I decided to use it for medical research and to develop the recovery techniques.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.

There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.

There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.

We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the truth.

I would rather try a shot to win than play safe and finish second.

I love the mid-length skirt. That's really appropriate, you can wear that in many different day occasions.

Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.