A well begun is half ended.

A well begun is half ended.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of ones movements it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode a walk a book a conversation.

I want to do films that challenge me. I want to do what the actors I look up to are doing - the Gary Oldmans and Daniel Day-Lewises.

I love tap!

Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show.

Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

If you are not going all the way, why go at all?

I made a bit of a stink. At the time, it was considered very bad form.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

As for civil liberties any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living if not in a police state at least in a police city.

Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.

Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience.

I get my news from selected Google News and my social feed.

Interestingly enough, there is a really different dynamic when you're directing something that somebody else has written compared to when you're directing something that you've written. And there's a good and a bad side to it. I think the bad side is that you never feel the same level of connection to the material - you just don't.

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings.

I am a free market Republican. I am against subsidies, in most cases.

My gay audience has been with me from the beginning.

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.

Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?

Be honest and humble enough to learn from everybody.

Yes, you make mistakes in the old cases where you really think you know who the suspect is, and you probably do, and you make the mistake of relying on people.

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.

The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with both the constructive and destructive.

Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.