Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

She who means no mischief does it all.

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.

Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.

The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food:In spite of which we like to thinkThat we are sound, substantial flesh and blood--Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.

There is no such thing as some people being 'a few chosen ones' on earth. We were all specially created by God to live happily and prosperously. So please stop downgrading your God's given potential.

I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it's never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.

I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America.

For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming.

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

War is the supreme failure of bridging the differences between nations.

He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.