Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its daily combat.

Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not "how much time do we have?" The question is "what shall we do with it?"

Value work. But not any kind of work. Ask yourself "Is the work vital, strengthening my own character, or inspiring others, or helping the world?".

Let us assume nothing, and we shall not be moritifed.

Whatever we really are, that let us be, in all fearlessness. Whatever we are not, that let us cease striving to be.

Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.

Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?

time spent in being interrupted is not time lost. ... How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is the most blessed thing that has come to us in long days?

It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies.

A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.

And the General regrets the night.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

FEAR only one person that is GOD. LISTEN to only one voice that is your CONSCIENCE

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.

I really love live performing!

Every representation, even of an orgy, is a sublimation.

"What is the greatest mistake a parent can make?" she asked. "To believe that your children will be just like you."

I'd love most of the movies I make to be four hours long.