The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

You know, in the film making business no one ever gave you anything.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. 

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

There is no retirement age for writers…