Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?

When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa?

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.

Only in your imagination can you revise.

Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, "I've been waiting to meet you for half my life."

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.

As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?

The more you've struggled, the more inspiring your story will be when you come out the other side. Do not give up. Today's struggle brings tomorrow's wisdom.

Instead of others, ask yourself, “Are you really okay?” Check on yourself like this and do a warm “Goodnight” to yourself.

We only have one desire, which wants to manifest in thousands of ways, like a flower who blooms in billions of shadesto express her only one desire...to be beautiful

Did you play by the rules and work hard but feel empty and unfulfilled? It's because you were lied to.

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.

With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.

Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology.

The moon shows the truth of things.

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.