Fear sticks like a barb in the mind. Someone cold enough to take advantage of it can attach strings to those barbs and make puppets of men and women.

Curiosity is the hunger of the mind.

Faith is courage.

People never know what they are capable of until all other options run out.

Love truly makes the world turn, as it has been said. What people forget is that the turning of the world brings darkness as well as the light.

All feel justified. To find truth, a man must consider the possibility that he is wrong.

Every sacred moment is made that way by sacrifice.

No healthy mind could bring itself to torture another human being.

Battles waged in daylight are fought by soldiers. Battles waged at night are fought by savages.

It is impossible to know the whole depth of someone’s character from a single moment, but seeing how they respond to the unexpected is a great start.

It is impossible for the sane to truly understand madness.

Goals are the result of bringing your dreams, ideas, and ideals into a real and examinable form by giving them permanence in written form.

...maybe you think up North is way different from down South. Don't believe it and don't count on it. Custom is just as real as law and can be just as dangerous.

I like to stay home with my family.

Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.

All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.

No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.

Mitt Romney, both did better with the military than Donald [Trump].

I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with.

All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with my parents' story and what they went through.