The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.

Shepherds, did they but know it, walk through greater halls than kings.

If hunger could please God, millions hadn't starved to death.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

When silence reaches an ultimate point, the light penetrates everywhere.

I don't mind auditioning. Sometimes, I think it's necessary.

Only twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

It is amazing how pretending to be in a different faction changes everything -- even the way I walk. That must be why it's so strange that I could easily belong in three of them.