If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

Journeys end in lovers meeting.

•Zuzu Bailey: Look, Daddy. Teacher says, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. •George Bailey: That's right, that's right. •George Bailey: Attaboy, Clarence.

You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.

I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

The only thing that stays the same is change.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.

I considered the prevention of war as the test of our security policy; in addition to being able to rapidly and forcefully end any war forced upon us.