The future of American film lies on television.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Smiles are the language of love.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

No one but a fool is always right.

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

In algorithms, as in life, persistence usually pays off.

No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

Right before I'm about to talk at length about something I like I say, Get me started.

While the official productivity data look impressive, alternative measures that are equally reasonable show a much more subdued picture.

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again

It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.