For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

I have this thing about friends and secrets. Sometimes when I meet a person I like, I tell them a secret they don't know me well enough to be told. It lets me judge their potential as a friend.

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.

I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.

That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.

The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.

You have the health you deserve.

You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.

Canada is useful only to provide me with furs.

To me, the stage is like my living room, or my home, and when you come over to my house, I have to be a hostess and invite you in so that we can have a great time.