If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

Reach out to the fullness of God’s grace strength for any accomplishment.

There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.

I am tired of the sickening sight of the battlefield with its mangled corpses & poor suffering wounded. Victory has no charms for men when purchased at such cost.

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.

Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!

We won't figure out what's sacred in life if we settle for what's safe.

Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished.

In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.

I'm always shocked by the people who I'm attracted to. It's always completely random. I generally like people who are a bit crazy but yeah, that's pretty much my only prerequisite.

A leader's job is not to do the work for others; it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.