Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even better. My vision is that academic excellence is the area that we should pursue more, coupled with fiscal discipline.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.

The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of children, already gathered like crikets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight.