He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold.
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.
I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.
You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.
I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation.
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.
We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important.
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.