For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Summer was a lady who didn't give up her spotlight easily.

Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.

I always knew I wanted to do it [broadcast]. I was always playing [sports] and I talked a lot too.

Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.

Communities and countries and ultimately the world are only as strong as the health of their women.

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

I always try to get as personal as I can with the characters that I play, which is a reason why I don't play a lot of characters.