Daily hope is vital, since the ‘Winter Quarters’ of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits, but hope spurs weary disciples on.
Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
The fog comes on little cat feet.
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.
The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
I was surprised when I was asked to play Miss Daisy and wondered if I could - only in part because she was Jewish but, also because she was a Southern woman who has hardly opened her mouth before she declares she's not prejudiced, and yet everything she does shows how totally prejudiced she is.
Whenever I study a genre of film-making, Steve Spielberg is the first guy I go to. Even Catch Me If You Can, which is a very lightweight kind of thing, if you just look at the economy of the way he designs his shots and works around actors, the craft is amazing.
. . . humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.