Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
I can, therefore I am.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Never complain and never explain.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Only the educated are free.
With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.