There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

Where there is a will there is a way.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

A strong determined spirit is unstoppable.

If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

This (America) is a land of rich diversity, from the towering skyscrapers of Manhatan all the way to the towering mounds of garbage piled up next to the towering skyscrapers of Manhattan.

We always had a central committee. They were mesmerized by Eldridge Cleaver.

You guys are going somewhere or just going?

It may look impossible, but God can do the impossible. Just because you don’t see anything happening doesn’t mean God is not working

Trends don't interest me.

Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.

Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.