Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

Dumbness and silence are two different things.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.

There's no unemployment insurance if you don't have a job in wrestling. You really have to be committed, to have a love and a passion for the sport, a belief in yourself that you can do it.

But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!

What I say is: There is nothing that God is not. So when you ask me what God is for me, I find myself wanting to say: Everything. Everything that is, that ever was, that ever will be.

Allowing yourself to be vulnerable is also one of the most attractive things you can do.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.