It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

I turned to him and he reached for my hand. It would have been easier to walk away. But the wind still blew around us and the house still stood.

Put on your lips success creeds every day. Never see yourself as an unworthy being, incapable of receiving good gifts from God.

Freedom - that word that the human spirit feeds: that no one can explain, and anyone who does not understand.

I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.

God wants you to be in the world, but so different from the world that you will change it. Get cracking.

I want to make accessible movies for bright people, but I don't want to play games and be coy.

Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work... You had better enjoy it.

An intensive human rights education for all communities needs to be provided to overcome the old prejudices.