For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

All of them would understand, as he did now, that he had crossed a line in himself, he had left their world behind, the decent world of tea parties and suburban witticisms.

In business it is most often all about getting your foot in the door and once you do, everything opens up and things start to naturally progress into bigger and more opportunities.

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

Men with purple hearts carry silver guns and they will kill a man for what his father has done. But what my father did, I don't live it: no, I am not him.

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

My way into making movies - into making things is general - has been through performing.

There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

What thing, in honor, had my father lost, That need to be revived and breathed in me?