To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.

how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

He who comes first, eats first.

We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.

True prosperity is an incredible gift. It's a gift YOU deserve. And no matter what anyone says, it's a gift that IS available to you - right now.

A man can be destroyed, but he can't be defeated.

My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste.

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.