Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.