The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

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.

Belief is a shelter, a prison for a curious mind.

The princess requests your princess at the Kronig. She says…” Bendsten paused, a smile curling his normally taciturn expression into one of humor. “One kidnapping deserves another.

It's easy enough to be pleasant when everything goes like a song but the man who is worthwhile is the man who can smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Arimaa's a better game than I thought. It follows a fairly sound approach to making the game difficult for computers.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

Service to many leads to greatness- great respect, great satisfaction.

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.

A film is one small voice among other large ones. The film is a tiny part of the discourse. You do what you can but under no illusions of what a film can do.

I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories' by Woody Allen, starring Woody Allen and Charlotte Rampling.