It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see not perhaps the way out but the way in.

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

Readjusting is a painful process but most of us need it at one time or another.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes but its fears.

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend perhaps the friend sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles and that help must come from without.

The moment that any life however good stifles you you may be sure it isn't your real life.

Brilliance is impossible without a touch of insanity.

The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself.

Expect nothing and life will be velvet.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don't. I never know how successful a movie is going to be - when you make a movie you're always hoping for the best.

All of the searching, all of the struggling, all of the efforting to find your true self is naturally revealed in open, relaxed simplicity.

I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.

Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.