Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

Tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people.

A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

Those who are religious or who have any beliefs have so much to choose from.

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.