“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.”

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

When you are finished changing, you’re finished.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

Speak little, do much.

You only have the right to pursue happiness; you have to catch it yourself.

A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

You can do anything you set your mind to.

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live.

In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline.

The hardest part of living is experiencing death without dying.

It’s okay to lose; just don’t lose the lesson.

Each man believes only his experience.

I have experience seducing nephews.

The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.

I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.

Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I’ve always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.