The betrayal I now felt was greater because it had been perpetrated with the greatest of charm and courtesy.

Today I was a teacher, employed. True, I was also a teacher untried, but that could also be an advantage. I would learn, by God I’d learn. Nothing was going to stop me.

So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?

Instead, we try to give them affection, confidence and guidance, more or less in that order, because experience has shown us that those are their most immediate needs.

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple

Where can you find opportunities? Dissect your excuses and you will find opportunities in abundance.

Gratitude becomes spiritual, a spiritual virtue and a spiritual emotion, when we are moved in our response by a God-centered view of the three: gift, recipient, and giver. – p. 56

If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against.

Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.

I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability. I don't know why. I know I can play these roles, but they're certainly not the only roles I can play.

Leave people better than you found them.

What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?