A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
The poor lack much, the greedy everything.
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last!
System thinking is a discipline of seeing whole.
The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.
Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
Il faut penser à ce qui arrive - nous sommes les producteurs de l'avenir.
He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.
I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
Above all things, reverence yourself.
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
I'm a historian in my own mind.
The fear that all this will end. The fear that it won’t.
You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
You fail only if you stop writing.
Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.
Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.