Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

If there is no Hell a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.

For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.

In 1986, when they made the TV movie, Return to Mayberry, Barney and Thelma Lou did get married!

I've done enough films to know how to save up my energy for the take and then give it on the take and do that.

If your goals aren’t synced with the substance of your heart, then achieving them won’t matter much.

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.

That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.

What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow.