The Ten Commandments are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.

After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day.

Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?

A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

I make my pictures for people, not for critics.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

Value those whose capabilities are insurmountable you yourself possess the same strength....there's NO value in clowns! Believe and overcome!

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defence against betrayal.

In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

I will dare to just do what I do. Be just what I am, and dance whenever I want to.

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

At Halloween a lot of young people were wearing Bush masks mocked up as an incarnation of the Devil.

I was more alone than if I had been alone.

What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.

Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.