Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

If your options are closing-in around you and you feel panicked, scared and helpless, this is the time for action.

...I would not engage the wombatIn any form of mortal combat.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.

I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.

Leaning to the side but you can't speed through; 2 miles an hour so everybody sees you.

Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.

You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand.

...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.