It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

Such was the code: Strive for victory, but never seem to be self-involved.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people?

I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.

I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.

Economic knowledge necessarily leads to liberalism

It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.

You've only got so long to live.

I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.