I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand.

Reforms should begin at home and stay there.

Sulfur, when burning, absorbs oxygen gas; the resulting acid is considerably heavier than the sulfur burned; its weight is equal to the sum of weights of the sulfur burned and the oxygen absorbed.

Young girls are the chatelaines of truth; they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.

Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.

The head talks to the heart and the heart talks to the feet.

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.

Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.