Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.
I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes a photograph unique relative to other two-dimensional media.
When somebody asks me "What are your comic books about?" or "What are your songs about?" there is no answer and I feel like an idiot not having an answer, like I don't know what I am making. I really do know what I'm making, but it's not one thing, it's everything I like, and I see no reason to leave out any of that.
Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.
To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing.
I'm going to put out something that I believe in, or I'm not going to do it. " I'm really scared of putting out a product that people will say, "Oh, that's not as good as the other thing. "
And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man; she likes him. Now she jumps on this thing and rides it to some kind of standstill. Then she changes it and trains it, and to the exact degree that she's able to do this, she disrespects him.
. . . the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
This is my one and only life and it's a great and terrible and short and endless thing and none of us come out of it alive.
Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing.
My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.
The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for.
There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.
I don't pretend to be objective. There is no such thing as being an objective journalist.
Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.
I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn't going to do one.