I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Smiles are the language of love.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

No one but a fool is always right.

The most beautiful vision is the one that lines your heart and fills your mind~bns

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

You want a bit of life before it's all over. It takes all the guilt away.

The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.

If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.

One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and heinous follies. Let us try to make ours light before her!

Honor all living things, for we are of the stag, and the salmon, and the bee; so destroy not life, save it be to preserve your own.

Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.