I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.

The past is never where you think you left it.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

You waste life when you waste good food.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

What we need now is endless courage.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.

Death is very, very terminal.

It's really important for our troops to understand our country supports them.

I am trying to re-shape and improve my central position.

My father was very strict, but mostly I just didn't know how to behave on a date.

Love attracts only one thing and that thing is love.

You ever dip your biscuit in your tea and it breaks. I swear now, you never get used to that.

The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.

It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

The youth is better than the old age of friendship.