Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education is to help you to think and lead.

I had no knowledge of divine help, and all the world lost faith in gradual progress.

Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie.

If limitation spawns creativity, is the limitless resource of the Internet a good thing?

I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.

If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.

I have nothing left to prove. I've already done enough to my neck.

I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.