Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

Life demands much. Give more.

Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.

I love working on the fly when the writers come up with new jokes on show nights. It's exciting. I love it so much.

I've always wanted to do a movie, and I really feel the urge to do it.I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

Nothing is more gratifying as a Christian believer than being able to thread my faith and love for Jesus into my music.

Some people look at the surface, while some see what's deep down. The most important thing is that the film should somehow stay with them until the very end.

Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.

Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?

God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.