"Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something."
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"If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are."
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"There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault."
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"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."
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"When it’s all said and done, I want to be able to say I got the most out of my potential. I don’t want to look back, however many years from now, and say, ‘I wonder if I would have worked a little harder. I wonder if I would have done this or done that, how things would have turned out.’ I want to, when it’s all said and done, be able to put my head on my pillow and say, ‘I did everything I could do — good or bad.’"
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"The prison psychiatrist asked me if I thought sex was dirty. I told him only when it's done right."
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"We should blush for shame to show so much resentment at what is done or said against us, knowing that so many injuries and affronts have been offered to our Redeemer and the saints."
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"If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing."
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"I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made."
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"Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages."
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"As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty."
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"Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)"
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"What is right to be done cannot be done too soon."
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"I'm very, very thirsty for knowledge. Just because I'm good at something and have found success doesn't mean I'm done. I'm not even close to being done. I don't know if I ever will be done learning."
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"I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have."
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"A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it"
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"Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials"
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"A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong."
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"My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done."
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"I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better."
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