Let people alone. Let them find their way. Let them find their level and you may sometimes be delighted and astonished at the extraordinary high level to which they'll rise if they're let alone.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Anyone can love a rose, but only a saint can love its thorns.

If you conform, you can never reform.

I do have a rule that very few meetings are worth more than ten minutes.

To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

I realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes to that.

I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination.

Money never declines. Money just moves.

I'm older, I'm matured... I'm looking forward to the years to come. Good years.