Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever.

You can blow out a candle, but you cannot blow out a star.

You of all people know how hard it is to trust. Especially when the world we live in is not the one humans are aware of. Trust must be earned, and the way to earn it is to prove you deserve it.

We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading.

My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment-- Unless it be that healing lotion Of fixing on a new devotion.

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive