Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.

To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

He strains his conversation through a cigar.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.

The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.

I failed many times, but I always found myself stronger and wiser.

The purpose of art is to stop time.

How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.

I depend on good editors and a good director. It's up to the way they shoot it, the lighting and all that. I like how small you can be on TV.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.

Experience alone does not create knowledge.

My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.

when we travel, most of us take too much. I always work on the assumption that I'm going to take everything with me because I don't want the second wife to have anything if the plane crashes.