Talking pictures are like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Today is a new day.You will get out of it just what you put into it.

The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.

Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something

"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

I saw Hollywood born and I've seen it die...

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

I'm very down to Earth, I'm just not from this Earth.

Even a brick wants to be something.A brick wants to be something.It aspires. Even a common, ordinary brick... wants to be something more than it is.It wants to be something better than it is.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

Our love is strong. Why carry on without me?

Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.

All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.

I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.