If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.

Love is something worth suffering for...

[God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.

History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.

After all, trust is greater than love, and to truly trust another human-being is rare. Love can exist without trust, but trust cannot exist without love.

Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock

In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.

Putting on a new pair of glasses or sunglasses is a simple way to completely transform your look - just like a new hairstyle.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

I believe there's a strong difference between something being good and something being successful. The successful thing is something we have no control over.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.