For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.
Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.
I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.
We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.
You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.