Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

A vision without a practical plan to develop it, is only that… “a vision.

No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.

Science is global, but solution is local.

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

When you know you made a film that people are going to watch, that's just really awesome; you know you did it for something, you know you shot a film for people to watch it.

I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.