To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

TP53 seems to encode the greater good, like a suicide pill in the mouth of a soldier that dissolves only when it detects evidence that he is about to mutiny.

Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I'm finished with it.

I worked in the story department for years, on Cars and Toy Story 3.

...one day I was speculating on how I would like to look back on life and I decided I wanted to feel that I was a photographer rather than a teacher. As simple as that.

Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around.

My father did everything for me. He was awesome.

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

We have to be more modest in what we claim.

Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.