Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

Good-humor is the clear blue sky of the soul.

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

My heart to you is given: Oh, do give yours to me; We'll lock them up together, And throw away the key.

The Sabbath-day is the savings-bank of humanity.

As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to help others less fortunate.

The best practitioners give to their patients the least medicine.

Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.

Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.

Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.

.if you cant let thing go, it owns you..

Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.

A film you can explain in words is not a real film.

The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

I was right then, I'm right now. I think time has proven me right.

I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.

Lying's a certain mark of cowardice.