Patience can be a means of letting matters mature to a proper state for action, not just a way of letting time slip away.

One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.

[M]y determined and strenuous endeavours to take in absolutely nothing of what I had regarded as entirely the most irrelevant part of my schooling had patently not met with total success

Creativity is the mother of invention.

The proper task of social reform is to remove poverty from society and to ensure that people do not sell their conscience to make a living.

Excluding the God of providence in your life’s configuration and design is like removing the thermostat from a thermodynamic system.

Servant of God well done.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.

Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.

Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.