If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.

Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.

Cover the earth, before it covers you.

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.

Fate is what Heaven imparts.

Results are always hidden in thoughts and actions.

Love is blind.

I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric.

I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.

Dreams are the way to unfulfilled wishes in the individual; visions are the way to unfulfilled dreams in mankind.

Regardless of where you're pitching, regardless of what goes on before or after your game, you still have to be ready.

Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.

Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.

Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!