“Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It’s a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people’s minds. I’m talking about your language.”

“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.”

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been

I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.

“I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.”

The best place tofind God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.