Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

Know or listen to those who know.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

It is time to change the paradigm of the church and of every Christian.

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.

What you think and do today determines how tomorrow is going to be.

I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse.

America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.

In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down.

My mother is who she is. I've become who I am. At some point I realized those two just didn't go together.