Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

She was as good as she was beautiful and as intelligent as she was good.

His smile is laced with dynamite.

The highest degree of human attainment comes when a person is blissfully at peace with his or her own nature and the natural world.

Rock bottom; that's a fishing term.

Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.

I wish I was a little bit taller.

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.