Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.

There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?

Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.

Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.

We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

The external rest comes unexpected.

The world is not what it is supposed to be. We are tragically off course.

There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five.

Stability is not immobility.

Young people, take heart: the older you get, the fewer commandments you will have the strength to break.

I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.

Nobody brings numbers to life like Horace Dediu does.

Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.

I am a huge Pistons fan. Those were some of my best times in college, watching the Detroit Pistons.