A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

A lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Life is a song to me.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They’ve got their heads screwed on a lot better.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

I’ve always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.