The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.
No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.
We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred.
The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object of our desire. Quench that fire and man turns to ashes.
I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.
The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
Cinema is the greatest mirror of humanity's struggle. You see this alternative world, but you're part of it. Everybody is part of it. This is our world.
But solitude is sadness. ' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.
I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.