A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered

Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.

Author refers to, "short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.

The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them,

A student was given a mentoring opportunity, "in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness.

The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.

It is not what happens to you or for you that makes you grateful. It's how you respond to what is happening, that shows your belief about gratitude.

In order to reach our goals we sometimes need a plan B. Other times we go all the way through to plan Z.

In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts

The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a system at all and that it wasn't something that was just there.

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

I think it turned out to be a pretty good movie [42]. I wouldn't lie to you.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

I could play ball all day. That's all I want to do.

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.