Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

I don't know anybody as creative and unique and off the wall as Dia Frampton. She's always asking me, 'Am I too weird?' I just tell her, 'People don't think you're weird, they think you're cool.'

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

The idea that the Lord had given us a present, that the world is a gift from God... well, the amount of stuff, back then, that the Lord was giving away was limited. We do not have dominion.

My theory: if the malls don't open until ten what's the point of being up earlier than that?

Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.

Why follow the steps of another to find out where our dreams will lead us.

We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.

I think religion is best when it's reduced to a one hour television program.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.