Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

Be yourself, And take control of your own destiny. There is nothing more disgraceful in life,  Than living someone else’s life.

Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.

Death is the vast perhaps.

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

For me, a director is such an important part of thE process. I really have to trust him. Because then you can kind of let your inhibitions down. You can go anywhere when you trust someone.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

Football is potential post-career suicide.

My dreams are all follies.