The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

There is so much that people take for granted.

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

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

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

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

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

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.