The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.

I love eating out. I don't deny that. But I don't want 12 or 15 courses because the chef wants me to taste this or taste that. I just want to be able to decide.

Why do men go to zoos?

There is more to be learned at the foot of the Cross than anywhere else in the world.

I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste.

The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.

We are writing stories with light and darkness, motion and colors. It is a language with its own vocabulary and unlimited possibilities for expressing our inner thoughts and feelings.