It’d be a mistake, ” Lee said. “I think maybe you have to make a few, ” Merrin said. “If you don’t, you’re probably thinking too much. That’s the worst mistake you can make.

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.

Don't believe everything you hear today

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.

I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.

Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.

Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.

I've learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economical director.

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

You have to give people something to dream on.

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

Theres a lot to be said for bands who fight to be relevant. But CONVINCING people you're relevant? Thats like telling people its not raining when they're soaking wet.

You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'

Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.

Always think of yourself as everyone's servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.