Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

Never so long as you live, write a letter to a man - no matter who he is - that you would be ashamed to see in a newspaper above your signature.

I like when I use music in film that it isn't just gilding the lily and it isn't telling you how to feel. It's giving you something, some other information that you cannot otherwise get in the scene.

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

Only the prophets see the obvious.

It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.

Learn to draw. Try to make your hand so unconsciously adept that it will put down what you feel without your having to think of your hands. Then you can think of the thing before you.