Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Maturity is not when we start speaking big things.It is when we start understanding the small things ....... @R$H

If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.

Large-scale change is grounded in small steps toward a big idea

Great companies are formed by great people. It’s not about attracting great people

If I had one thing I'd like to lose weight. It's tough because of the way I live.

I never talk about a job before the contract is signed and I've shot the first three days.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.

The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious.