The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

Where would the world be if we took every man to book? There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best- in a way that cost them nothing.

Some birds learn how to fly only after falling off of a cliff.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!

Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.

It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well.

That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach; what is allotted you will find wherever you may be.

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