Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

To experience a great result is for everyone to be part of extending the reign of God’s love

From Day 1 I wasnt planning to run until I am very old.

What's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail.

I think another way that you can really harm yourself as an artist is by buying into the mythology that it's really important.

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing.

When I got back from the war in 1946 people didn't want the Mr. Smith kind of movie any more, and I refused to make war pictures.

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear And reign the sovereign of the conquered air.