It's time for the [Confederate] Flag to come down, because it just doesn't represent who we are as a people, as Americans anymore.

It's such a shame that people are so much more worried about being right than being decent.

A library — a place full of books! Imagine!" Ivy couldn't imagine a place closer to heaven. Think of all the books you could read!

A limited mind will have a limited world!

Lucy had to guard her reputation - her reputation for sanity - the way that a woman a hundred years before would have had to guard her reputation for virtue.

One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

There are still an awful lot of intelligent, clever constructive Americans and they are still doing clever constructive things.

Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows, And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close; Why are we fond of toil and care? Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.

The difference between directing film and directing television is so stark simply because TV is a living breathing organism already when you direct an episode.

A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey.