The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

Creativity is the mother of invention.

Why must duty require me to break my own heart?

Mention but the word "divinity, " and our sense of the divine is clouded.

There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.

The vague torment of ... ambition.

You can make money two ways - make more, or spend less.

You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. Like them, he was slandered and misunderstood.