It is a world, " he said, "filled with the mysterious joinder of accident!""It is a world, " replied Abner, "filled with the mysterious justice of God!

It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it. The story-teller does but provide him with the stimuli.

People are priceless. A chance meeting with a loving human being was worth more than any amount of money in the world. I felt rich.

Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point.

When you demand perfection within yourself, you become more fallible.

I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.

My object when writing prose is to write as clearly as possible. I think I know what I'm saying in prose, and I want others to understand it and to be able to restate it.

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

My experience is that short sellers do far better analysis than long buyers because they have to. The market is biased upward over time-as the saying goes, stocks are for the long run.

Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.