I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

There was no way a world as corrupted as this could be saved or all of the wrongdoers punished.

... life isn’t a battle between us and the rest of the world, but rather a battle to overcome ourselves - our inimitable egos ...

The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.

You must act as if the goal were infinitely far off.

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

I think that people like the idea that fans are sort of slightly eccentric and strange, but generally I've just found them very creative and warm and cheerful.

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.