[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)

Humiliate your enemy is dangerous.

The only thing limiting your aspiration is your imagination.

Sometimes "No" is the kindest word.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.

After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

Hushed as midnight silence.

Each film is difficult, in its own particular way. There's a unique set of challenges on every movie.

Heavy is the root of light.

My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life.