All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.  

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your response later on.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.