Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.

When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.

When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

People work better when they are afforded to be themselves

I think too many film students in America are losing the artistry and not learning lighting the right way.