In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

A hospital is no place to be sick.

Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

When you juice books from a library you are taking the history and imagination that has accumulated over so many years there.

We might do well to take a look at what we’ve crammed into our pockets as it will say much about what we’ve crammed into our hearts.

When a man comes to me for advice I find out the kind of advice he wants and I give it to him.

Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.

There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.

I'm always happy when I'm protesting.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

I think people have confidence that I will fairly and accurately represent their point of view to the President, and that I'm not going to put a spin on it, even if I may disagree with it.

Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.