Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
I feel the stars. Each sparkle sets aflame the pain in my heart.
Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding
And oh I want so much to sing, I tell myself no. But it is so hard to keep from singing.
Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , the offered themselves as a gift.
A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its simplicity and directness, particularly in scenes of naked self-concern and brutality. Hate, spite, love, magic, all self-evident, heartbreaking, delightful. I will return to this book over and over, no doubt about it.
Forgiveness is a little thing when love is there.
You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.
In order to better charge Moscow with human rights violations, the United States had to bend with regard to the more excessive aspects of Jim Crow. It had to yield to the insistent cries on the ground here in this country.
He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.
Sir, I have seen your film and it is vulgar! Madame, my film rises below vulgarity.