God is in all nature; thank God for the scientists, for they are thinking the thoughts of God after him, whether they know it or not.

Patience is passion tamed.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

You have a choice in everything in life, so keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make makes you.

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

The truth is that no matter how many retakes you do, each will be different and that is the nature of any creative medium. There's no such thing as perfection.

Never let your actors go before they are satisfied with a scene.

I really think it's important for presidents to exit the stage gracefully.

With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.

For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

All is context. Choose yours carefully, where you have a choice.

There was alliteration happening all over the place in that sentence.

While passenger numbers have doubled in the past 20 years, the industry remains scandalously inefficient.