Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

we hear the most brilliant ideas and suggestions we failure comes our way

maybe i am doing right, maybe i am doing wrong but at least i'm trying

When you follow Christ, it must be a total burning of all your bridges behind you.

I like really good movies, but I can enjoy a really bad movie, too.

The idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting.

It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity.

A lot of journalists say, "Tell us about the '80s." Nobody wants to know about the '70s!

Without God, life is everything.

I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I wanted to work with people that I respected and liked.

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.