The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.

Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.

The heart that has truly loved never forgets.

Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

Beware men with cold hearts and blue lips.

I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.

You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind.

If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.

Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?

The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results.

You can’t really change the heart without telling a story.

For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.