If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

A liar with a pen is a writer

Our country, our people, and our laws have to be our top priority.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.

Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?

[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

If you emphasize one part of the song, it trivializes the rest of the music.

You feel good inside, you look good outside. I feel like I look like somebody who's having a good life, who's enjoying it a little better than I did before.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone!

Photographing attractive people who were doing attractive things in attractive places. (Summary of his photographic career)