Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Secrets are truths that show what we’ve been through—what we’ve survived.

The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.

I decided what I wanted to do, not to make me look good, but to make me feel comfortable. Other presidents do it other ways.

You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling.

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

If you move in the present moment, the whole eternity is in your hands.

Tomorrow can be a wonderful age.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.