Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

Don't look backwards. That never does any good. Think about the future instead.

I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young.

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

Preserve and treat food as you would your body, remembering that in time food will be your body.

It would hardly benefit me to hold anything back unnecessarily, when I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in--God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower full of other needles.

The moon likes secrets," Meran said. "And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations.

When I did a Love Boat, it would go to so many different countries, and I would travel there and get this incredible response!

Being the first person to go to college that really related to me from the movie [The Butler] because being black and going to college everyone puts so much hope into you.

Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.

Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.