“Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.”

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.

The education of attention would be an education par excellence

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

That which is most personal, is most interesting.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.

I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;

Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.

There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.

In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.

We’ve just kept the ship running y’know what I mean? You change engineers from time to time and as long as everybody coming aboard knows what direction the ship is, everything’s alright.

I would just like to tell my fans how much it means to me to make a movie that they like.

Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.

During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.