Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

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.

When you want something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done.

The more conscious we become the more consciously we choose that which we set in motion to create.

The United States is a rogue state violating international law in many, many ways that California wouldn't have to if it seceded and became a nation.

I can't sit in the same place. I gotta keep going.

Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")

Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.

I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.

On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.

I went out to the hazelwood because a fire was in my head.

The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.