Make your best thoughts into action.

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

It is never permissible to say, I say.

How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.

She smiled at him, and he stopped breathing.

Until God’s Word becomes a Picture that you can see, it cannot become a reality in which you can feature.

There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

If I can play 15 when I am 25, I can play 35 when I'm 55.

Each man is for his lord, do not give chase.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.

Going there [Japan] in the early 80s was quite a culture shock. I think the bombardment of Shinjuku and all that would have filtered through, which certainly informed things we later filmed.

The wealth of a country is its working people.